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Avoid conversations by wearing headphones - Airplane tip

by David P. Sims (RSS feed) on Mar 30th 2010 at 4:37PM

Sick of hearing about a stranger's dysfunctional family or odd medical conditions? Avoid conversations all-together by doing a simple thing: wear headphones.

This works best if you also avoid eye contact (and it may be necessary to pretend that you don't hear you fellow passengers the first time they speak). Pull your headphones off when speaking to them and then put the headphones back on when the chit-chat is over.

In reality, it doesn't even matter if the headphones are plugged in. The other passengers just need to believe they are.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Travis Apr 26th 2011 4:08PM

This never works for me; people just want to talk to me regardless of headphones, or sleeping, or both.

Oh, nice blog btw.

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