My office mate whistles along with music way offkey/melody

[abcdefz]

Arrrgh.

I mean, I'm the guy playing music in our shared space all day, so I shouldn't complain that he's only twice asked me to switch it to something else... but the downside is that when he's grooving along to something that's playing, he whistles LOUDLY and nowhere near the right key or melody or anything. He's like the John Coltrane on acid in Seattle of whistling. :(

[QueenAdrock]

ahahaha

Yeah this dude sat next to me on the Metro last week and started humming really loudly to himself, but everyone could hear. And he was way off key. I don't get why you would hum that loudly that everyone would hear you, especially if you were so incredibly tone deaf, too.

[abcdefz]

Oh my God. That reminds me of the girl with headphones on singing on the bus last week.

She was BAD. She makes that American Idol dude sound like Pavorotti. I mean, I wondered if she was deliberately off just to fuck with people. How could she sing so unashamedly, badly, and loud enough for the whole bus to hear?

So what happens? Middle age dude (not me) gets on the bus. I'm ignoring him, reading the paper, but I can tell he's wanting someone to talk to. So he compliments this girl, and she takes off her headphones and says, "What?" and he says, "You have a very nice voice."

(!)

So she thanks him, puts the headphones back on, and now she rachets it up a few notches and starts trying to do more vocal gymnastics and whoos and scat singing and shit. Oh my God. I couldn't even read, and I at one particular vocal lunge I actually snorted into my paper.

God, it was bad...

[QueenAdrock]

I'm ignoring him, reading the paper, but I can tell he's wanting someone to talk to.

Oh my god, I know those types. They get on, they smile and sit down next to you, and make a casual comment about the weather. I usually smile and say something short about "Yeah, it's pretty nice. I love the spring." and unfortunately, that will somehow launch them into their stories. They don't even want to hear anything, they just want to talk and talk.

I saw some other girl sucked in the other day. She was sitting next to another girl, just waaaaiting to pounce and talk her ear off, all she needed was a reason. So some guy almost loses an arm jumping onto the train, and the girl says "Man, why would you almost kill yourself trying to catch the train? There's another train 2 minutes behind you! This reminds me of that time that this one woman..." and she went on for the next 10 minutes, talking about stupid people who do stupid things on the Metro, and then somehow it lead to her talking about her sister's credit problems.

The other girl had a tight smile on her face, and her eyes screamed "I. DON'T. CAAAAAAAAAAAAARE!"

hahaha it was entertaining to me at least (y)

[Lex Diamonds]

On Tuesday night me and my friends were on a train platform waiting with my friend for his train, and we had like half an hour so we smoked a few joints. We were pretty licked when the train came, so we said our goodbyes and headed to the steps to go down off the platform. I had my iPod in and was listening to "Automobile" by NWA, and I was pretty stoned so I started singing along without thinking. Just as I had shouted out "GIVE UP THE PUSSY SOON, ALL I WANT IS A LITTLE WOMB!", I turned around and realised there were about 20 people off the train coming down the steps behind us.

Me and my friends actually ran all the way home. You know why? It was out of embarassment.

[abcdefz]

Oh my god, I know those types. They get on, they smile and sit down next to you, and make a casual comment about the weather. I usually smile and say something short about "Yeah, it's pretty nice. I love the spring." and unfortunately, that will somehow launch them into their stories. They don't even want to hear anything, they just want to talk and talk.

I saw some other girl sucked in the other day. She was sitting next to another girl, just waaaaiting to pounce and talk her ear off, all she needed was a reason. So some guy almost loses an arm jumping onto the train, and the girl says "Man, why would you almost kill yourself trying to catch the train? There's another train 2 minutes behind you! This reminds me of that time that this one woman..." and she went on for the next 10 minutes, talking about stupid people who do stupid things on the Metro, and then somehow it lead to her talking about her sister's credit problems.

The other girl had a tight smile on her face, and her eyes screamed "I. DON'T. CAAAAAAAAAAAAARE!"

hahaha it was entertaining to me at least (y)



Yep yep yep. This is reason number one why I carry a newspaper.

Sometimes the newspaper isn't enough, and the person will try to keep engaging, and if it comes down to it, I will say, "Excuse me, but this is my only time to read the paper during my day..." or something like that. Only once did that not stop someone, so I just moved to the other end of the bus. Fuck that: I will not be held hostage by someone because of their neediness.

[TurdBerglar]

invest in some large headphones and look at your feet or out the window and just completely ingonre those inconsiderate assholes.

[abcdefz]

On Tuesday night me and my friends were on a train platform waiting with my friend for his train, and we had like half an hour so we smoked a few joints. We were pretty licked when the train came, so we said our goodbyes and headed to the steps to go down off the platform. I had my iPod in and was listening to "Automobile" by NWA, and I was pretty stoned so I started singing along without thinking. Just as I had shouted out "GIVE UP THE PUSSY SOON, ALL I WANT IS A LITTLE WOMB!", I turned around and realised there were about 20 people off the train coming down the steps behind us.



That's beautiful. :D

[TurdBerglar]

invest in some large headphones and look at your feet or out the window and just completely ingnore those inconsiderate assholes.

i also hate those shitheads that wait and wait for the seat next to the driver to open up so they can steal it as quickly as possible and yack the drivers ear off. why can't some people just sit there and shutup. it's like it's painful for them just to not be social for 20 minutes.

[QueenAdrock]

I think they're also the lonely cat ladies who purchase 20+ cats so they can constantly be talking to something in each room.

[abcdefz]

Now he's whistling over the clarinet opening of Rhapsody in Blue. :(

[jabumbo]

bad whistlers are the worst! at elast most people who suck at it realize it and dont try. you can usually tune out bad himming or singing, but whistling pierces through just about everything

[abcdefz]

How funny. Now he's whistling along with "I'm Waiting for the Man."

Badly. :D


He's sort of trying to whistle along with Moe's snare drum, but he's missing it.

[b i o n i c]

you should write him a funny memo about this little "problem" you seem to be having and how its afftecting your TPS output. maybe he'll get the hint

[jabumbo]

post his phone extention number here and we can all call him up and tell him we are iwth some organization that is against off-key whistlers and see if he gets the point

[abcdefz]

I really can't complain. With little restriction, he lets me play the music I want all day, every day. Rarely a peep; occasionally a whistle.

-- and he's not really interfering with my work. Hell, he even occasionally supplies a message board topic. ;)

I should just shut up.