Quiet please, morons.

I was on the tram going to work this morning, because I love going to work. It's like, my favourite thing to do.

I was seated across from two high-school kids who were from a school that I've never heard of before, but it's in Hawthorn somewhere. They were spectacularly ugly kids, and from their banter I can only assume that the school is for gifted children, though I keenly observed that the main 'gift' in question seems to be the gift of dumb.

Here's the thing, though. The girl in the pair had her iPod on and the volume obviously turned up, because she was basically shouting her responses to the boy's questions.

'Do you like Michael Jackson?'

'YEAH HE'S REALLY GOOD IT'S A PITY HE DIED'.

'Yeah, it is. I really like that new song by The Current Fad Band too'.

'YEAH I'VE GOT IT ON MY IPOD. CAN YOU HEAR ME? PUNCH ME ONCE IN THE MOUTH FOR YES, OR KICK ME IN THE ASSHOLE FOR NO'.

It's always bugged me, that. The fact that people's brains send the message that because you have headphones on, you can't hear as well, so you have to raise your voice. I mean, if you're in a nightclub, that makes sense, but if you're on public transport, then think a little before you open your cakehole.