As if I haven't told you enough things that annoy me, speakers are another thing. I appreciate the technology, but I dislike loud stereo systems that are extra loud so you can immerse not only yourself in audio, but everyone within a large radius around you as well. I prefer headphones they are not a product for the user, they are a product for everyone else around the user. Using headphones or ear-buds rather than using speakers is an act of respectable consideration for those around you.

But, I'm ashamed to admit that on the occasion that I don't have my ear-buds some part of my mind takes a pleasure in “sharing” my music or audio with those around me. When I play my little pony inspired music, or watch some video on my laptop, I turn my audio down so that only I can hear it at first, but then I slowly turn the volume up to the level that someone else can hear it. When I do this part of my mind sincerely has a strong hope that someone will hear it and ask “What's that”, at which time I will introduce them to the subject matter that will quickly be of much interest to them. If there was some procedure to accurately burn this part of my mind out with a surgical laser, I would seriously consider having it done. As any sane person would guess, the imagined scenario mentioned above has NEVER happened. If someone started playing their music or a video, chances are that I wouldn't care unless it already overlapped with my current interests. In that unlikely scenario, I wouldn't ask them about it, because I would be busy doing something else. It's just an annoying way to try to get attention. For some stupid reason I still think that turning my audio up will somehow attract new interesting friends like rotting fruit attracts flies.

I don't know that little part of my mind persistently thinks that when the opportunity arises. In fact it happened today when I was waiting for a class to start. I turned the volume up on my laptop while watching zero punctuation just loud enough that my classmate could hear it. But there it is. That is one annoying little instinctive behavior and mental tick of mine that the rest of my mind doesn't seem to understand. Does anybody else experience this? If I'm the only one that does, at least this feels like a good exercise in introspection. I plan on writing more of these things.