and there really is so much in this world to complain about.
but something popped into my head just now as i'm sitting here at my dayjob wishing i were dead, and i thought i would see if i am the only one plagued by this particular phenomenon.
why the fuck is it that EVERY single time i am on a flight...and it never fails, ever...i'm sitting there trying to relax and get used to the fact that i am trapped for hours in a tiny compartment that was designed specifically to cut off circulation in all 5 of my limbs, when all of a sudden an all-too-familiar tune filters its way through the general loud hum of the plane's engines and the gale-force outside winds.
supermarioland.
or whatever the gameboy version of super mario brothers was called.
some selfish little bitch kid with asshole parents is playing a gameboy with the music on as high as it will go. not only in public, but in an enclosed airplane. and i have to sit there for an entire flight being driven crazy by the annoying song and visualizing each level as the music changes, like its some sort of modern version of chinese water torture.
like -- where do these people come from? my parents would have MURDERED me if i were not wearing headphones while playing a video game on an airplane...or better yet, playing with the sound off.
it just truly shocks me. it shocks me that i am the only one who seems to be losing his mind over it. and that the flight attendants don't grab these gameboys and smash them on the overhead compartemnt lids. cuz that's what i feel like doing.
it's bad enough that we can't stuff paper in the screaming mouths of babies, but video game noise pollution -- THIS we can control. so why don't we?
like those people that think it's okay to choose a ringtone on the subway. DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT EVERYONE ELSE ON THE TRAIN WANTS TO SIT THROUGH EVERY SINGLE RINGTONE ON YOUR PHONE OVER AND OVER AND OVER?!
i know i should be used to it by now, but i guess i just can't get over how many people in this world are 100% self-oriented, and that no one has ever taught them otherwise.
p.s. i haven't slept in 5 days
bye!
Sunday, January 6, 2008
i love to complain
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I totally agree. People have this crazy illusion of total self entitlement that they believe permits them to be however inconsiderate they want when it's convenient.
My baby brother is a gameboy addict, but after taking a road trip with him a few years back, he's literally not allowed to play unless he puts on earphones.
you are my hero.
i would have been thrown into the overhead compartments if i even thought of turning on the sound.
You should have done what that woman did in Corea... put the kids in the freezer...
ok, gross, i'm leaving
Happy New Year Jay!! And get some sleep..
That totally happens all the time. As a gamer it does not really bother me, but I normally have my own headphones on for that exact reason. Sometimes I don't turn the music on, but it provides a nice small barrier against noise.
I do think everyone with any portable electronic device should have the common decency to wear headphones. My poor boyfriend can hum all of the video game music which cycles on a loop when I play at home, and I feel guilty about even that.
Jay, hopefully others will read your blog, and it will cause them to take a moment and think if they or someone they know is guilty of allowing this type of behavior to go on. I know I have told my niece to put her phone on silent should she insist upon texting with her tween friends in my presence.
I like screaming babies even more.
Excited you're coming to Toronto.
Enjoy the flight.
:) Ryan
ps - don't kill yourself or anyone else on the way...
jay you are definetely NOT the only one.
in a world where more and more people share less space e.g. airplanes :)or major citys in general there is a big misunderstanding:
increasing anonymity in these places shouldn't call for less rather than MORE consideration and respect.
at least that's what i think, when overstrained mothers block the supermarket ailes with there bugaboo scientology sect buggys or let there brats do the same with their baby shopping carts.
and if they see that some guy just very carefully wants to pass by moving very gently either cart or child then you really should be grateful that looks can't kill...
ooohhh yes, i love to complain, too :)
take care - and beware of the mothers
Solution: Sennheiser PXC 250 Active Noise Canceling Headphones.
It's the next best thing to the 'mute' button on the Universal Remote in 'Click'.
Srsly :|
Wow - Jay. I'm sorry you had to be put through such a distracting, annoying, intolerable situation. But I must say it's quite cute that you would feel such a way. I know. I'm weird. But buddy...you really should try to get some sleep. I know, you've already heard that, so why am I saying it, even though it's just annoying probably. 'Cause I care! :)
Now get some sleep!
Have a cocktail and pass out! That's what I do!
save your soul, man. I love you.
yeah, jay, the headphone-solution ist good. and next time, take the gameboy, search for the bastards parents and stuff them with it.
and say to them: "the magic word: education"
and for your sleep: jesus, yes! get drunk! and sleep untill headache has disappeared.
:-)
love,
the vErN
got to agree lol... especially the ringtone bit! every single time i get in the bus or the train going to a mall in a city somewhere, there is SOMEONE trying the find the best ringtone for his mobile phone.
p.s. u should try smashing that gameboy on the ground next time. see what happens :P
oh.. 'n get some sleep mate ^.^
greets, arjen fortuin
If you ever fly on my airplane, I'll take care of mario boy and his parents.
i feel bad.
because i used to be one of those kids. x]
you may love to complain, but Chris Crocker IS the Queen of Complaining
my son actually programmed his cell to play some legends of zelda theme hellsong when i called him for a while...I think that qualifies me for the double jeopardy of torture by video sound effects prize, definitely...
I hear you man! And I don't know if you heard, but Air France is in a trial period, allowing cell phone use on their flights!
Hi Jay, Saw Shortbus, LOVED IT, I also enjoy your music!!! I'm a Flight Attendant, and yes, you were put through a bad situation. We have a company policy forbidding such a thing, headphones are required. I would have made that flight for you as quiet as possible. Looking forward to getting our of Idaho and seeing you play music in person!!! Buh-bye...bye-now.....
sei unico...non vedo l'ora di incontrarti per le strade di new york....But...why don't you came to Rome????...Bacio...Mario(really, it's my name!!!)
this also happens on every fucking train i travel with. and i usually travel by train once a week or more. i hate those kids. and screaming babies with parents. and parents. and those carts. god.
haha loved the one from the ringtone...that totally happened to meon the bus! hate those bastard!! pick your ringtone when you get home! grrr they make me nervous and i just feel like shooting them...of course, it's just a thought xD
See, there's only one thing that annoys me even more than that & it's when I can hear--loud, clearly and capably--the music that someone else is listening to on their IPod, clear across the subway.
Apparently with people who have no sense of common sense, also have no sense of how to google "hearing loss."
Tuh-tuh-tuh
Tuh-ruh-tuh-ruh
Tuh-ruh-tuh-tuh-tuh-ruh-tuh-ruh-ruh-ruh
Tuh-ruh-ruh-ruh-tuh
Tuh-ruh-ruh-tuh-ruh
tuh tuh tuh.
Ha,ha,ha,ha.
I know I'm not going to be liked by this, but there's some strange pleasure in getting into peoples' nerves by making annoying sounds. Oh, the thrill!
Ha.
(But, still, I love your songs and have lifted me from my chronical depression. So, kill the kids or whever')
Sure, you're not the only one... and thanks to make me realize i wasn't the only one too...
Well... i think we're about millons hahaha
^^
i do not think this rudeness comes from self-ego-something. it is like new feature in evolution to HOMO MORONUS unfortunately.
and to the `mother blocking` theme- the thinner the passing is the more people stuck there(and not just overloaded mothers)
so good luck :P
i'm a complainer, too....because i want the world to be perfect and the people to be honest and sincere.....but that attitude does not make friends......eventually, the hoi will want to hang you from branches far above their consciences.
five limbs ay?
I love hostile people. Btw I've told kids to shut it, makes you feel good about yourself.
any polite child would go to the toilet and sit there, listening to the annoying gametracks....Jay...you've set the paradigm for that, haven't you? I was trapped, on a trip from New Zealand to Atlanta, sitting behind a very "ripe-smelling" family from Zimbabwe, who sent me to that same facility, vomiting with nausea....their stink permeated the entire passenger cabin.....years ago...it was cigarette smoking....yeah....there was an area, of course, but.....how do we cordon off the air, for (*^# sake?
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