Wednesday, April 09, 2008

My new hero

OK, maybe "hero" is too strong a word, but haven't we all wanted to yelle at someone talking too loudly on their cell phone? I know I have, and it's usually some punk-ass kid on the bus, yacking with his or her punk-ass friends about something that requires both volume and an endless stream of profanity. The profanity I can handle, although it is pretty repetitive, but the volume? No.

Anyhow, being a good Seattlite, I just turn up the volume on the Zune and stew about it. Ol' John Clifford, on the other hand, is from New York and prefers the direct approach. We could probably use more of that...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I of course am all in favor of a little more directness here... Ugh, I sometimes feel like an bull in this china shop full of passive aggressiveness...

My favorite part of the article was, "He had been arrested eight times after being accused of throwing coffee, spewing expletives and getting in the faces of people whom he considered loud and rude on the commuter line. This was the only case that wasn't dismissed."

Beautiful...

Scott Chicken said...

I'm partial to the 19-year-old nitwit comment myself.