Matt Bell: I’m sitting at a U-shaped bar rail with about forty seats, writing. I’m the only customer. Then a guy in business clothes comes in, sits right next to me, and immediately starts watching an action movie on his phone at maximum volume, without headphones. WTF?

I’m sitting at a U-shaped bar rail with about forty seats, writing. I’m the only customer. Then a guy in business clothes comes in, sits right next to me, and immediately starts watching an action movie on his phone at maximum volume, without headphones. WTF?

Beg pardon, WHAT.

I’m getting a little murderous!

Only a little?

make him eat the phone

Today you became a woman.

I’ve seriously considered buying a pack of cheap little headphones to carry with me, so as to be able to hand them out to people who pull crap like that. Happens way more than it should, shows total disregard for other people.

I feel like people who do this /want/ us to notice what they're watching or listening to so we'll think they're cool. Opposite of me, who never wants anyway to see what I'm watching because it's some weird 4 hour YouTube deep dive on the history of the Spider-Man musical or a Sims Letsplay.

I have to ask….what’s the movie. Because I want to hate this jerk and judge him a little more.

No idea. Lots of machine gun fire.

waiting to hear what happens next 😡

If I had two pens with me, I’d be tempted to lose one in him. But I do still want to write.

Did you look around to see if his friend was recording the scene on his phone?

Would you mind moving to the other side of the bar so I could focus on my tasks at hand? Now.

The fiend!

oh crap, so that's where that NPC i was screwing around with programming went, feel free to point it toward traffic

Ha!

Now you know what it's like to be a woman :/

Pull up some Aphex Twin on yours and blast it. Works for me every time.

A meet-uncute if I ever heard of one

Haha, yes.

I want an end to this story (doesn't have to be real) and a follow up on the not-quite-closed-door on the plane.

"Dude, shift the fuck over with that." I'm not beyond telling a jagoff that he's being a jagoff.

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