Jamie Marsland regt sich auch über den unangenehmen Umstand kontinuierlicher Lärmbelästigung und über die völlige Fehleinschätzung der eigenen Position in einer Gruppe von Menschen auf und bringt auch gleich ein passendes Beispiel, das wir – was noch viel schlimmer ist – sicher alle so oder so ähnlich kennen.
I was working in my local café yesterday […] Everything was lovely. There was soft chatter, the faint hum of the espresso machine, and the comforting illusion that humanity still had some manners left. Then he arrived. A man in his late fifties, well-dressed, the sort of chap who probably irons his socks. […] Without hesitation and with the sort of casual confidence usually reserved for people who think “quiet zones” are a suggestion, he pulled out his phone and started watching a YouTube video. Out loud. […] I leaned over politely, as politely as one can while suppressing the urge to throw a biscotti, and said,
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“I’m really sorry, but could you turn that off or put on some headphones?” He looked at me as though I’d just asked him to surrender his human rights. He got indignant. He got cross. He said no. I said it was really anti-social. He said I was anti-social. We had, in other words, reached the point in the debate where reason had packed up and gone home.
Viel öfter als dass ältere Herren ihre YouTube-Videos in Lokalen ansehen, sehe ich Mütter Kindern ein Tablet vor die Nase stellen, auf dem (unendlich nervende) Kinderfilme laufen. In voller Lautstärke. Aber am Ende ist’s dasselbe Problem: Beiden – Mann und Mutter – ist es egal, was rund um sie herum passiert. Und das trifft und ist das Kernproblem.
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