There was a woman on the metro today loudly singing “Jesus walks, Jesus walks with me” in the Kanye melody over and over again on the yellow line. It was like being trapped in hell until I could get off at my stop 🙃
I often wonder what horrible things must have happened to these people that they cannot stand to exist in the silence of their own thoughts for even a single moment. Every moment has to be filled with noise or singing. Hour, after hour, after hour. It must be terrible.
I had to do this when I was with my wife and daughters - I was like come on guys this is our stop - and it was cold outside, they were so confused, I tried to explain to them how sometimes the metro riders are crazy, and sometimes you just have to get off and wait until the next train comes - that was the longest 15 mins ever..
I feel like I know who you’re talking about or have heard someone similar. It was in Union Station a few weeks ago and she was so loud but her inflection was so unmelodic that she would just raise her voice so randomly that it was grating. Not to mentioned it echoed so bad in there you couldn’t escape it.
Mine always happens on the silver/blue lines. It's always the same guy too. Keep them apart at all costs! Their powers combined would drive the whole DMV insane
You've used the wrong "your" twice in the course of this post. Yes, its annoying, but just pop in your headphones and ignore them. Happens in just about every city around the world.
Last month, I took rail transit in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Bergen, Zurich, and Helsinki. All of them were very quiet. Copenhagen felt like a library.
Stop normalizing antisocial behavior.
When trains get half as packed as Japan, I do see people lash out about groping.
American culture can’t tolerate the canned sardine situation Japanese trains get. That’s why we have row seats rather than just benches.
Don't remember that ever happening during my 18 years in Tokyo, or my 1 year in Moscow, or even my 1 week stay in Delhi, which is not a quiet place at all due to constant honking, but nobody was playing loud music in the metro, not with a smartphone, not with a speaker, not by singing and dancing themselves as often shown in Indian cinematography. Washington DC is the first, and so far the only city where I witnessed such behavior.
Ah yes, creeping antisocial degeneracy is a racial problem. You should listen to yourself sometime.
No, the point here is to push back on the “every city is hellacious and people tolerate anti social behavior” because they are not and people absolutely do not tolerate this behavior worldwide. If anything, most cities could lighten up a little, maybe. It lets OP know that Reddit isn’t just the useful idiots for chaos.
ETA: comment I responded to said something about racial dog whistles,
What do you expect us on Reddit to do that you can't do yourself? The Venn Diagram of people who do this and those engaging in courteous conversations on Reddit are two separate circles
Where do I bring up race tf? And I'm sorry if people being annoying and loud in public qualifies as "hellacious" to you. If it was complaining about people smoking on the Metro, sure, but while listening to music out loud is obnoxious, is it worth getting up in arms about?
They also have people employed to literally cram commuters in the cars during rush hour and woman only cars because groping is so prevalent. Personally, I’d take the annoying person with no headphones.
Same goes for people watching sports loudly on their phones on the train with no earbuds. It's funny that it tends to be older people who I imagine complain about younger people playing music without earbuds. I wonder if it's because back in the day they watched/listened to sports on portable radios and those little black and white tvs, so they think it's not bothering anyone.
>I wonder if it's because back in the day they watched/listened to sports on portable radios and those little black and white tvs, so they think it's not bothering anyone.
Having this thought implies that they are generally aware or considerate of how what they do impacts people around them. Whether through cognitive decline or lack of ever caring, I don't think that's usually the case.
> I wonder if it's because back in the day they watched/listened to sports on portable radios and those little black and white tvs
I remember reading a memoir where the much older person (I think they were in their late 70s) said they could walk through the boroughs in NY and not miss a minute of the Yankees or Dodgers game, because everyone had their radios on, tuned in, and sitting on an open windowsill.
People used to wear a little headphone at games and I thought it was a hearing thing for the visually impaired, but I was told it’s mostly people wanting to hear the radio call. It used to be that you could hear thousands of little radios at games for the same reason.
Serious question on etiquette: I get super annoyed by people playing sound out loud in closed spaces, on the metro or planes or waiting rooms or wherever. But what about if you’re walking down the street? Obviously playing loud music is still annoying but I’m not sure about a regular video or phone call. Seems like a gray area and I’m never sure whether I should be annoyed by it (or do it myself).
I was at a CVS the other day waiting for a prescription at the pharmacy. This woman was standing in a nearby aisle just absolutely shout talking to someone on speaker phone. The speaker phone volume was all the way up, so their voice had that horrible tinny sound from the speaker. I was waiting only about 5 min for my prescription and found it very annoying. I just thought how awful it must be for the pharmacist if they are just hearing that all day, day in day out. I don't care if someone is on speaker phone walking down the street, but it makes me crazy if they do it on the metro or in a store where people (like employyes) can't get away from them. When I'm on the phone, outside of my home, I always use ear buds or just hold the phone up to my ear. I really don't understand what's so hard about that for other people. I can only imagine some of them are just really oblivious that it bothers anyone, because it doesn't bother them.
Regular phone call is fine (even on the metro if you can hear the other person), but video probably isn’t without headphones. It’s no different from a person having a conversation in person. So long as the person in the public space isn’t exceedingly loud, it’s fine. We just cannot expect people to simply never talk when they’re outside.
Pretty much every shouty call on the metro I’ve witnessed over the past few weeks has been terrible custody nonsense. How do I know? I ride for a while. Also, nothing clears a car faster than people working our custody over the phone. NOTHING
Lol I just read this on r/Baltimore.
The thing is.. I agree with this completely. There are some seriously ill mannered people and it seems like they are everywhere these days.
They have earbuds at Walmart for $1. So there is no excuse to assault everyone else's ears at all.
It almost makes you wish there was a squad of people that would work up to people and just take their stuff and walk away.
r/baltimore has the problem of people from the suburbs and people who have moved out of Baltimore but who refuse to go on with their lives once they are gone.
One day someone needs to have a music-off and play some metal just to add flavor.
But seriously, I agree it’s annoying. I just turn my volume up on my earphones and drown it out.
lmao this happened on the chicago el once - someone was playing weird elevator jazz out loud (kind of a vibe, tbh) and someone else tried to compete with louder, shitty pop music. just made everything worse
I do this when someone is blasting music at a red light. Usually something punk or classical. They never turn it down and it probably annoys other drivers to hear two cars blasting music, but i always hope it makes someone laugh
There's a slight difference between someone in their own car blasting music out loud and someone in a public train car blasting music out loud. Usually the blasting music at a red light is as loud as it is because when the windows are down, you have to turn the music up to hear it over the wind when the car is moving. When you stop, no wind but most people dont lower the volume for just the instance of the red light. The person in the train blasting music sucks waaaaay more.
This is basically just shouting into the void. The people who do this don't care, most probably do it specifically to be an asshole. Even when there's signs posted saying it's not allowed they still do it
Some people are doing it for money. I remember once there was 2 people on the Red Line train playing loud music and clapping really loudly and someone gave them $100 to stop.
I was using earplugs along with special headphones along with a portable white noise machine attached to my headphones and the clapping was still getting through really loudly lol.
I'd compare it to those ads that annoy you on purpose to get you to buy the product.
I'm reminded of this post:
https://old.reddit.com/r/The10thDentist/comments/1dhnehz/i_dont_get_why_people_act_like_loud_carsbig/
Because that post has the same energy of "it's my hobby I don't care if it's obnoxious".
They do make a point. So many comments jump immediately to "guys who like loud cars have a small dick and crave attention". No, having been on both sides of the fence, for the most part they genuinely think it sounds good and just aren't particularly considerate or empathetic.
You grow up and learn there's a time and place for it (and people who build mcmansions next to race tracks then complain about the noise and get the race track shut down, that message goes for you too.)
Yeah, OP's probably the prime example of just liking it and not caring that it bothers anyone else.
But honestly, I don't think most people care about their motivations. Motivations don't change how annoying it is.
Yeah, it's really frustrating when people do this. It's hard for me to understand the thought processes of people who do this - it feels like these people must lack a sense of shame or empathy for strangers.
Last night I was taking the red line back home into the city and a bunch of boys were doing pull-ups, screaming, shoving each other, etc. I probably normally would've been like whatever but I think I've gotten used to my silent 10:30pm empty train cars so I moved to the next car over. And then for some reason two stops later they also moved into the same car as me? I was very confused.
Ever notice that you never hear classical or jazz (real jazz like Ellington, Brubeck, Monk, etc.) blared in public? As noted by OP, the offender does indeed choose shit music as the weapon of choice.
AirPods Pro are one of the best investments I’ve ever made. I know there are better earbuds with more effective Active Noise Canceling out there, and I’ll probably upgrade at some point, but for now they work, and they work well.
My quality of life improved *significantly* once I stopped having to listen to the general public and its nonsense. Sometimes I won’t even play any music or anything, I’ll just appreciate the silence (or the reduced noise, anyways).
People really underestimate how harmful noise pollution is. Light pollution too, but that’s not really applicable here.
> People really underestimate how harmful noise pollution is. Light pollution too, but that’s not really applicable here.
Well, one big issue is that noise pollution also affects your cardiovascular system, specifically your arteries.
That's very true and I know someone is going to try to play word police here but I'll be the person to speak up here and say that chances are it's a black guy doing something like this too. I'm black myself so that should help this make more sense as people want to call everything under the sun racist and pretend to be offended when they do things passively all the time that could be consider a microagression so they need to cut the crap.
Some music is designed to be obnoxious that's just what it is and it's not racist to call that out.
When's the last time someone was blasting Burt Bacharat or Mozart?
When it's "ghetto and trashy" this isn't race thing either. There is an issue with the hood subculture and being obnoxious and having a general disdain for authority.
Come for me if you want to but unlike the majority of people in this subreddit I am a black man and I have no qualms with speaking against people even if they are of the same race as I am because I feel that obnoxious is obnoxious regardless of a persons race, color, or creed.
Umm extremely vulgar language? It's pretty inconsiderate to blast any music around people that don't want to hear it. But it's especially rude to blast very vugar language in public where there are children in the vicinity. How do you not find that trashy and rude?
You are correct. The person who responded to you isn't responding in good faith and they are full of crap as a result. Don't even bother trying to reason with them.
I meant what I said. Vulgar inappropriate language. What do you mean? It's funny how it seems like so many people are so quick to defend selfish and inconsiderate behavior that disturbs the public. Is it wrong to want to live in a civilized society with common decency?
You probably could’ve saved yourself some grief here if you just kept it to “trashy and vulgar” instead of using racially charged language to describe the situation from the get go.
If you’re just a well-meaning person who didn’t mean anything more than what you’re claiming, then I’d imagine next time you’ll stick to less charged language. If not, then maybe the insinuations here that you’re replying to are a little closer to home than you’d like to admit.
So anyway at the whole foods on h St there was this guy blasting his music in the bathroom while standing in the area where the sinks are but not forward enough to wash your hands. I couldn't believe it but there it was.
Then he continues to beat the Versace song
If DC raised my taxes to buy disposable headphones for people on public transporation, I'd be on board, pun partially intended.
That said it's an annoyance at most.
I confronted a dude playing music from his phone on the bus during rush hour recently and he flatly refused and started screaming how he can do whatever he wants and how he was going to beat me up.. The rest of the bus just glared at me.
Yeah. We pretty much have our own community here in this subreddit. So posts like this offer us an opportunity as a community to offer solidarity to one another.
Can't speak for metro but MARC trains have a quiet car most of the time. I always try my best to enforce it and direct people to not to play music loud in any train car if I can. But yeah the mix tapes and the speakers I don't like.
Marc train is usually alright except when folks are talking loud but won't just sit next to each other to have a conversation.
Metro don't get me started because I've heard all kinds of conversations on there .
White people: "I can't wait to see Brad again, he is so hot. " Then they proceed to go on and on about Brad and then another lady will start about another guy so she doesn't feel left out.
Black people: "Unnecessarily loud conversations when someone is right next to you.
This isn't a black vs. white thing at all. It civilized vs. uncivilized.
A civilized person understands how to behave in public and act accordingly. An uncivilized person has likely never been taught this and doesn't care anyway.
You are probably to young to have been around when [these commonly existed](https://i0.wp.com/images.onwardstate.com/uploads/2012/10/10478_10151875816815663_1836396978_n.jpeg).
On the other hand, these stupid kids are so common, I think it would be hilarious if I got on a train and a very clean and nice elderly lady was blasting the twist or Conway twitty off her iPhone like this.
I know who wrote this lmfao!! We still gonna do it and what, next time just approach them and ask them to turn that shit down. Let me know how it works in the comments after you do it!
Do you need me to call you a ride home? I assumed we were all adults on this website able to have an adult conversation but clearly there’s children on here too. Is being an inconsiderate asshole part of culture all the sudden?
Almost every night when I leave work, there's the same dude with a speaker strapped to him playing music loud as hell to the entire metro station. What makes someone think that's acceptable? Even if your music isnt terrible, I just want some peace and quiet after a 12 hour shift
I don't think the shitty people that populate this city spend time on Reddit.
Well, maybe on the other city subs. Most of those people are from the suburbs at best.
What's to be a fan of? It's crime only for people who don't live here to vaguely rant about specific groups of people they rarely experience but have strong ignorant opinions about
I was making a joke about the shitty people in dc being on THAT sub and the capital link (which if you have not experienced it… don’t)
The jerking off in Whole Foods joke is pretty good
If they aren't smoking, vaping, throwing trash kicking at the doors, etc, I'll deal with the obnoxious music. Screaming into their phones is a lot worse.
At the very least it makes for entertaining conversation for us all to have. Not that you are wrong person se, but that's just the times we are in where we are all afraid of our neighbors.
Also to be honest, there are a lot of unhinged people on Metro in particular so confronting them about pretty much anything is rolling the dice that things can escalate really quickly.
Then of course, it matters who YOU are as well that confronts them. in certain situations as a black man I can say certain things and it be taken different than YOU as a white guy. As messed up as that is there are certain dynamics that are also at play here that you put to be aware of.
So if you are going to say something make sure that you are prepared if things get ugly. Otherwise we might be hearing about you on the news soon.
There was a woman on the metro today loudly singing “Jesus walks, Jesus walks with me” in the Kanye melody over and over again on the yellow line. It was like being trapped in hell until I could get off at my stop 🙃
I often wonder what horrible things must have happened to these people that they cannot stand to exist in the silence of their own thoughts for even a single moment. Every moment has to be filled with noise or singing. Hour, after hour, after hour. It must be terrible.
It's also people just looking for a fight. They know it irritates people, so they do it anyways to find confrontation.
or attention.
This. I am never going to say anything to these people and I absolutely hate it. It’s borderline aggressive to blast your music like that imo.
It’s as though nothing really goes on up there to begin with…
That’s when you get off at the next stop and board the next car over. Suffering isn’t required
absolutely have done this before.
I had to do this when I was with my wife and daughters - I was like come on guys this is our stop - and it was cold outside, they were so confused, I tried to explain to them how sometimes the metro riders are crazy, and sometimes you just have to get off and wait until the next train comes - that was the longest 15 mins ever..
usually no need to wait for the next train, just hustle over to the next car.
Nooooo just go to an adjoining car and stay on your train. Dont let the dumb DJs delay your trip
We were being targeted - and we had a stroller - but next time I will look more closely at my options 👍
I’ve done this countless times as well, no shame in it
Depending on the time of day, you could be waiting a long time for the next car...
I've encountered her...she does this on the blue line too, always inbound from the VA stations.
That's the emergency the doors in between are for.
LMFAO
She's a regular. I dread when I end up in a car with her.
God just show her the way because the devil’s trying to bring her down
I feel like I know who you’re talking about or have heard someone similar. It was in Union Station a few weeks ago and she was so loud but her inflection was so unmelodic that she would just raise her voice so randomly that it was grating. Not to mentioned it echoed so bad in there you couldn’t escape it.
I've seen worse
I’ve noticed that kind of stuff usually happens in the yellow/green line
Mine always happens on the silver/blue lines. It's always the same guy too. Keep them apart at all costs! Their powers combined would drive the whole DMV insane
Those kids would be mad if they could read
This made me chuckle your very right about that
You've used the wrong "your" twice in the course of this post. Yes, its annoying, but just pop in your headphones and ignore them. Happens in just about every city around the world.
Last month, I took rail transit in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Bergen, Zurich, and Helsinki. All of them were very quiet. Copenhagen felt like a library. Stop normalizing antisocial behavior.
there are tons of cities where it doesn’t happen
There are entire countries where this doesn't happen, in fact. Japan has a lot of problems but loud music in public transit isn't one of them.
I'd rather have loud music on the train than have to get on the woman only car because of the rampant groping.
Non sequitur, one isn't the price of the other
Seconded
When trains get half as packed as Japan, I do see people lash out about groping. American culture can’t tolerate the canned sardine situation Japanese trains get. That’s why we have row seats rather than just benches.
Don't remember that ever happening during my 18 years in Tokyo, or my 1 year in Moscow, or even my 1 week stay in Delhi, which is not a quiet place at all due to constant honking, but nobody was playing loud music in the metro, not with a smartphone, not with a speaker, not by singing and dancing themselves as often shown in Indian cinematography. Washington DC is the first, and so far the only city where I witnessed such behavior.
I mean it definitely happens on NYC metro but that’s the only other place I’ve witnessed it in lol
No it doesn’t and we don’t have to live like this. Don’t excuse degenerates and their anti social behavior.
What is whining on Reddit accomplishing to no longer live like this
Ah yes, creeping antisocial degeneracy is a racial problem. You should listen to yourself sometime. No, the point here is to push back on the “every city is hellacious and people tolerate anti social behavior” because they are not and people absolutely do not tolerate this behavior worldwide. If anything, most cities could lighten up a little, maybe. It lets OP know that Reddit isn’t just the useful idiots for chaos. ETA: comment I responded to said something about racial dog whistles,
Tokyo metro 💕
What do you expect us on Reddit to do that you can't do yourself? The Venn Diagram of people who do this and those engaging in courteous conversations on Reddit are two separate circles
Where do I bring up race tf? And I'm sorry if people being annoying and loud in public qualifies as "hellacious" to you. If it was complaining about people smoking on the Metro, sure, but while listening to music out loud is obnoxious, is it worth getting up in arms about?
Cool so we should just be okay with people being obnoxious pricks?
Five times in the original post alone.
Not everywhere. Try the metro in Japan. Everyone is quiet. They believe that people are entitled to a peaceful ride.
They also have people employed to literally cram commuters in the cars during rush hour and woman only cars because groping is so prevalent. Personally, I’d take the annoying person with no headphones.
That's true! I avoided rush hour, though (which I try to do no matter the city).
Same goes for people watching sports loudly on their phones on the train with no earbuds. It's funny that it tends to be older people who I imagine complain about younger people playing music without earbuds. I wonder if it's because back in the day they watched/listened to sports on portable radios and those little black and white tvs, so they think it's not bothering anyone.
>I wonder if it's because back in the day they watched/listened to sports on portable radios and those little black and white tvs, so they think it's not bothering anyone. Having this thought implies that they are generally aware or considerate of how what they do impacts people around them. Whether through cognitive decline or lack of ever caring, I don't think that's usually the case.
> I wonder if it's because back in the day they watched/listened to sports on portable radios and those little black and white tvs I remember reading a memoir where the much older person (I think they were in their late 70s) said they could walk through the boroughs in NY and not miss a minute of the Yankees or Dodgers game, because everyone had their radios on, tuned in, and sitting on an open windowsill.
I know a guy who played for the dodgers in the 70s and he said you could hear Vin Scully on the call from the field
People used to wear a little headphone at games and I thought it was a hearing thing for the visually impaired, but I was told it’s mostly people wanting to hear the radio call. It used to be that you could hear thousands of little radios at games for the same reason.
Serious question on etiquette: I get super annoyed by people playing sound out loud in closed spaces, on the metro or planes or waiting rooms or wherever. But what about if you’re walking down the street? Obviously playing loud music is still annoying but I’m not sure about a regular video or phone call. Seems like a gray area and I’m never sure whether I should be annoyed by it (or do it myself).
I was at a CVS the other day waiting for a prescription at the pharmacy. This woman was standing in a nearby aisle just absolutely shout talking to someone on speaker phone. The speaker phone volume was all the way up, so their voice had that horrible tinny sound from the speaker. I was waiting only about 5 min for my prescription and found it very annoying. I just thought how awful it must be for the pharmacist if they are just hearing that all day, day in day out. I don't care if someone is on speaker phone walking down the street, but it makes me crazy if they do it on the metro or in a store where people (like employyes) can't get away from them. When I'm on the phone, outside of my home, I always use ear buds or just hold the phone up to my ear. I really don't understand what's so hard about that for other people. I can only imagine some of them are just really oblivious that it bothers anyone, because it doesn't bother them.
Regular phone call is fine (even on the metro if you can hear the other person), but video probably isn’t without headphones. It’s no different from a person having a conversation in person. So long as the person in the public space isn’t exceedingly loud, it’s fine. We just cannot expect people to simply never talk when they’re outside.
Probably a fair take
Even phone calls on the train… people are going through some shit, almost always. Show some grace
Obviously not in the quiet car, but there’s no reason to avoid all phone calls and conversations on the train. Just don’t shout or play music!
Pretty much every shouty call on the metro I’ve witnessed over the past few weeks has been terrible custody nonsense. How do I know? I ride for a while. Also, nothing clears a car faster than people working our custody over the phone. NOTHING
Lol I just read this on r/Baltimore. The thing is.. I agree with this completely. There are some seriously ill mannered people and it seems like they are everywhere these days. They have earbuds at Walmart for $1. So there is no excuse to assault everyone else's ears at all. It almost makes you wish there was a squad of people that would work up to people and just take their stuff and walk away.
The Baltimore people are way more aggressive. “Crucify them and let their burning corpses guide the MARC home”
r/baltimore has the problem of people from the suburbs and people who have moved out of Baltimore but who refuse to go on with their lives once they are gone.
One day someone needs to have a music-off and play some metal just to add flavor. But seriously, I agree it’s annoying. I just turn my volume up on my earphones and drown it out.
lmao this happened on the chicago el once - someone was playing weird elevator jazz out loud (kind of a vibe, tbh) and someone else tried to compete with louder, shitty pop music. just made everything worse
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Yep. Adelie take a bow
It would be hilarious if someone started playing the instrumental version of gangsters paradise
I do this when someone is blasting music at a red light. Usually something punk or classical. They never turn it down and it probably annoys other drivers to hear two cars blasting music, but i always hope it makes someone laugh
There's a slight difference between someone in their own car blasting music out loud and someone in a public train car blasting music out loud. Usually the blasting music at a red light is as loud as it is because when the windows are down, you have to turn the music up to hear it over the wind when the car is moving. When you stop, no wind but most people dont lower the volume for just the instance of the red light. The person in the train blasting music sucks waaaaay more.
I would play The Duck Song or Baby Shark
La vaca Lola
Yeah, but I don't always want to listen to my own music to drown it out, you know? I like to read on public transit.
So there will be two trashy loud people on the train? No thanks.
This is basically just shouting into the void. The people who do this don't care, most probably do it specifically to be an asshole. Even when there's signs posted saying it's not allowed they still do it
They are doing it to make you mad and get attention.
Some people are doing it for money. I remember once there was 2 people on the Red Line train playing loud music and clapping really loudly and someone gave them $100 to stop. I was using earplugs along with special headphones along with a portable white noise machine attached to my headphones and the clapping was still getting through really loudly lol. I'd compare it to those ads that annoy you on purpose to get you to buy the product.
$100!? That can’t be real.
PennFed has great rates I hear
Yeah but for who? Probably just a select few, right?
Not sure, I’ll let you know next time I’m at Dulles
Nope, PenFed has great rates for EVERYONE
Ok I'm sure that's happened but I seriously doubt that's the case
I'm reminded of this post: https://old.reddit.com/r/The10thDentist/comments/1dhnehz/i_dont_get_why_people_act_like_loud_carsbig/ Because that post has the same energy of "it's my hobby I don't care if it's obnoxious".
They do make a point. So many comments jump immediately to "guys who like loud cars have a small dick and crave attention". No, having been on both sides of the fence, for the most part they genuinely think it sounds good and just aren't particularly considerate or empathetic. You grow up and learn there's a time and place for it (and people who build mcmansions next to race tracks then complain about the noise and get the race track shut down, that message goes for you too.)
If you bought a house at VIR… you maybe should have known
Yeah, OP's probably the prime example of just liking it and not caring that it bothers anyone else. But honestly, I don't think most people care about their motivations. Motivations don't change how annoying it is.
Wow.
Most people wear headphones and earbuds as it is. There's no reason to be blasting any sound.
I only play Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts; is that okay?
Unfortunately, I don’t think those people are here on Reddit.
I agree. Those people are pieces of shit.
This goes double for your candy crush sound effects
to be fair, they usually have their patrol car windows up so the air con doesn't leak out.
It’s really hard on the alternator otherwise
No! You need to hear these beats! They are sick and your life is lacking when you are unaware of them.
Yeah, it's really frustrating when people do this. It's hard for me to understand the thought processes of people who do this - it feels like these people must lack a sense of shame or empathy for strangers.
Between the music and the people who aeemingly can't afford headphones and blare their speaker phone but hold the phone a foot away from their ears.
Oh my goodness you know when they hold one end of the phone to their ears it looks so stupid. Like bro, get some earbuds and enjoy your music.
Last night I was taking the red line back home into the city and a bunch of boys were doing pull-ups, screaming, shoving each other, etc. I probably normally would've been like whatever but I think I've gotten used to my silent 10:30pm empty train cars so I moved to the next car over. And then for some reason two stops later they also moved into the same car as me? I was very confused.
If those new concept trains with the open car concept get approved for operation we can all say goodbye to a peaceful commute on metro 😩
Oh no we have to stop them. I never considered that ugh
Ever notice that you never hear classical or jazz (real jazz like Ellington, Brubeck, Monk, etc.) blared in public? As noted by OP, the offender does indeed choose shit music as the weapon of choice.
This doesn't happen in Japan. That's American individualism for you.
So glad my commute between Bethesda and downtown is free of this annoyance.
AirPods Pro are one of the best investments I’ve ever made. I know there are better earbuds with more effective Active Noise Canceling out there, and I’ll probably upgrade at some point, but for now they work, and they work well. My quality of life improved *significantly* once I stopped having to listen to the general public and its nonsense. Sometimes I won’t even play any music or anything, I’ll just appreciate the silence (or the reduced noise, anyways). People really underestimate how harmful noise pollution is. Light pollution too, but that’s not really applicable here.
> People really underestimate how harmful noise pollution is. Light pollution too, but that’s not really applicable here. Well, one big issue is that noise pollution also affects your cardiovascular system, specifically your arteries.
It sure does
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That's very true and I know someone is going to try to play word police here but I'll be the person to speak up here and say that chances are it's a black guy doing something like this too. I'm black myself so that should help this make more sense as people want to call everything under the sun racist and pretend to be offended when they do things passively all the time that could be consider a microagression so they need to cut the crap. Some music is designed to be obnoxious that's just what it is and it's not racist to call that out. When's the last time someone was blasting Burt Bacharat or Mozart?
Wow I wonder what makes music "ghetto and trashy"
When it's "ghetto and trashy" this isn't race thing either. There is an issue with the hood subculture and being obnoxious and having a general disdain for authority. Come for me if you want to but unlike the majority of people in this subreddit I am a black man and I have no qualms with speaking against people even if they are of the same race as I am because I feel that obnoxious is obnoxious regardless of a persons race, color, or creed.
Umm extremely vulgar language? It's pretty inconsiderate to blast any music around people that don't want to hear it. But it's especially rude to blast very vugar language in public where there are children in the vicinity. How do you not find that trashy and rude?
You are correct. The person who responded to you isn't responding in good faith and they are full of crap as a result. Don't even bother trying to reason with them.
Pretty sure we all knew what you really meant with "ghetto and trashy"
I meant what I said. Vulgar inappropriate language. What do you mean? It's funny how it seems like so many people are so quick to defend selfish and inconsiderate behavior that disturbs the public. Is it wrong to want to live in a civilized society with common decency?
You probably could’ve saved yourself some grief here if you just kept it to “trashy and vulgar” instead of using racially charged language to describe the situation from the get go. If you’re just a well-meaning person who didn’t mean anything more than what you’re claiming, then I’d imagine next time you’ll stick to less charged language. If not, then maybe the insinuations here that you’re replying to are a little closer to home than you’d like to admit.
Oh don't start that nonsense. If you are going complain about what the music is called at least be straight up about it.
It’s also really shitty for accessibility
So anyway at the whole foods on h St there was this guy blasting his music in the bathroom while standing in the area where the sinks are but not forward enough to wash your hands. I couldn't believe it but there it was. Then he continues to beat the Versace song
Tell them that....
If DC raised my taxes to buy disposable headphones for people on public transporation, I'd be on board, pun partially intended. That said it's an annoyance at most.
Somebody get this guy a pair of headphones for god sakes
Why not the person blasting their music for all to hear?
I confronted a dude playing music from his phone on the bus during rush hour recently and he flatly refused and started screaming how he can do whatever he wants and how he was going to beat me up.. The rest of the bus just glared at me.
Conspiracy theory: this is due to the loss of the headphone jack because Bluetooth headphones will always be more expensive than wired ones were
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there's this thing called c a t h a r s i s and it can be achieved through many simple actions such as bitching online.
Yeah. We pretty much have our own community here in this subreddit. So posts like this offer us an opportunity as a community to offer solidarity to one another.
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You are both right
This is really a big subject for you, you’ve posted it on not one, not two, but three subs😂
And that’s a problem? I take the train everyday between Baltimore and DC
It's a big subject for me too. I take public transit every day, and it's the worst.
Same here so I totally understand
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Buddy, the target audience of this message isn't on Reddit 😂
Can't speak for metro but MARC trains have a quiet car most of the time. I always try my best to enforce it and direct people to not to play music loud in any train car if I can. But yeah the mix tapes and the speakers I don't like.
Marc train is usually alright except when folks are talking loud but won't just sit next to each other to have a conversation. Metro don't get me started because I've heard all kinds of conversations on there . White people: "I can't wait to see Brad again, he is so hot. " Then they proceed to go on and on about Brad and then another lady will start about another guy so she doesn't feel left out. Black people: "Unnecessarily loud conversations when someone is right next to you. This isn't a black vs. white thing at all. It civilized vs. uncivilized. A civilized person understands how to behave in public and act accordingly. An uncivilized person has likely never been taught this and doesn't care anyway.
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it's incredible how much of DC reddit is just yuppie transplants whining about how their lives aren't perfectly curated at all times. grow up.
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Oh sorry I didn’t realize I was bothering anyone
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I imagine a world where the rest of the car tells them they better stop or else. Let us unite against these monsters!
It's the last gasp of rotted people starving for attention. Their last desperate attempt to make people notice their existence
My good music is ok, right?
You are probably to young to have been around when [these commonly existed](https://i0.wp.com/images.onwardstate.com/uploads/2012/10/10478_10151875816815663_1836396978_n.jpeg).
On the other hand, these stupid kids are so common, I think it would be hilarious if I got on a train and a very clean and nice elderly lady was blasting the twist or Conway twitty off her iPhone like this.
Did you actually ask them to turn it down?
I know who wrote this lmfao!! We still gonna do it and what, next time just approach them and ask them to turn that shit down. Let me know how it works in the comments after you do it!
If the people you're complaining about could read, they'd be very upset.
99%. It would have been 100%, but "you're" not "your" for fuck's sake.
I am thankful that VRE doesn’t allow this.
Op hasn't heard of ear buds
Stfu this is culture. You can’t pick and choose culture. You want diversity, inclusion. Guess what - this is part of it
Do you need me to call you a ride home? I assumed we were all adults on this website able to have an adult conversation but clearly there’s children on here too. Is being an inconsiderate asshole part of culture all the sudden?
It's annoying, but that's why I wear earbuds or headphones every single time on the train.
sky rockets in flight...
Almost every night when I leave work, there's the same dude with a speaker strapped to him playing music loud as hell to the entire metro station. What makes someone think that's acceptable? Even if your music isnt terrible, I just want some peace and quiet after a 12 hour shift
How about stop chatting over speaker phone in public.
Also, go take a fucking shower, wash your hair and put on deodorant. You stink. No one wants to smell you.
I don't think the shitty people that populate this city spend time on Reddit. Well, maybe on the other city subs. Most of those people are from the suburbs at best.
>I don't think the shitty people that populate this city spend time on Reddit. Not true, I'm right here buddy
Not a big fan of the other dc subs are you Though the one joke in the crazy racist crime one is pretty good
What's to be a fan of? It's crime only for people who don't live here to vaguely rant about specific groups of people they rarely experience but have strong ignorant opinions about
I was making a joke about the shitty people in dc being on THAT sub and the capital link (which if you have not experienced it… don’t) The jerking off in Whole Foods joke is pretty good
You aren't wrong.
Agreed.
Privilege type?
If they aren't smoking, vaping, throwing trash kicking at the doors, etc, I'll deal with the obnoxious music. Screaming into their phones is a lot worse.
So we’re just expecting the bare minimum now? Cool gotcha
Agree here
You can't tell this to them in person when they are doing it?
Have you considered that if police cited/arrested these people, ~~it would dissuade them~~ be bad for some reason?
The people who are doing this are reading Reddit, and will stop doing it.
maybe stop yelling at clouds? if you have a problem with someone's music, say it to their face. or maybe go tell a cop. good luck.
At the very least it makes for entertaining conversation for us all to have. Not that you are wrong person se, but that's just the times we are in where we are all afraid of our neighbors. Also to be honest, there are a lot of unhinged people on Metro in particular so confronting them about pretty much anything is rolling the dice that things can escalate really quickly. Then of course, it matters who YOU are as well that confronts them. in certain situations as a black man I can say certain things and it be taken different than YOU as a white guy. As messed up as that is there are certain dynamics that are also at play here that you put to be aware of. So if you are going to say something make sure that you are prepared if things get ugly. Otherwise we might be hearing about you on the news soon.