Prose

Headphones don't work.

written by: liavioleta

So, true story, from today actually. I go into one of the cars of the "Tren Urbano". I see an empty seat at the end. So I seat down and...wait! My peace has been disturbed. I hear a stupid rhythmic sound... It's an annoying sound that only deaf illiterate people could come up with... Anyways the thing is that there was no radio anywhere. The answer is sitting right in front of my face. The devilish retarded annoying "tus kaka tus ka" sound was emerging from the headphones of a public high school girl with too much mousse in her hair. But wait... that's not the end.
At the next stop a 20 something year old boy comes in, and with him the exact same "music". Because in reality that "music" is all the same. Same beat and same themes in their songs... But whatever this is not about the music, it's about the headphones (I'll dedicate another of my essays to that music).That boy was seating down at the row beside me, two seats down... I could still hear the music! I don't know if I have incredible hearing abilities or they just have the volume too loud. Even though I would like to flatter myself with my great hearing ability, I have to accept that the answer is the latter one.
The mission of the headphones is been sabotaged. I thought, and I'm sorry for believing what I thought was right, that the purpose, the point and the object of the headphones was that the individual wearing them and ONLY the individual could listen to the music. Not the people around! Why don't they just carry a damn boombox on their shoulder, they would be martyrizing and massacring our ears with their sound contamination either way.
Stupid mindless alienated robots that think that being hearing impaired is totally awesomely cool! It's just like people in their cars. Why do people...no wait, let me rephrase: Why do imbeciles think that we, the people around, would like to listen to the shit they're listening to? Why? Why?
Was there a lesson in life that I missed when I was a teenager? Was I absent the day that they explain that hearing music really absurdly loud was an act that would put us higher in the social ladder? If so, I'm glad I missed it.
Now I don't actually care about the health of those imbecile's eardrum, for all I care they could also go blind and fall down in the train's railroad just in time when the train is about to pass. What I care about is my hearing ability, so if you're like those imbeciles, do me a favor and go deaf already. If not then shoot yourself in the ear. That could solve it too.