The new public nuisance

I was reading the free newspaper they give away on the buses here the other day, when I saw a letter from someone on the letters page that, for once, I agreed with one hundred per cent. The writer was complaining about people who listen to their MP3 players on public transport- and more specifically, their musical tastes, or lack of it.

Whenever I get on the bus, there's always at least one teenager who's got their iPod on at full volume. And every time, it's blaring out the same old thumping, godawful hip hop music. They're the public transport equivalent of those pillocks who drive around the streets of urban and suburban England with the volume of their car stereos cranked up to ten. I for a while, have felt inclined to take my own MP3 player on the bus, sit near one of these pains in the neck and give them a taste of my own musical tastes. Hear some proper music on the bus for a change. One thing's for sure I would rather hear some Muse, Green Day or Keane first thing in the morning on my way to work than some tuneless, pointless thudding!