Massimo Pigliucci

No, you don't.

You're not at home.

You're not in your home.

You don't have a right.

So sometimes those things will escalate, not to the point of, you know, physical violence, but certainly of raised voices or, you know, storming off and calling the manager of the movie theater, who usually is impossible to find for whatever reason.

And so there was a number of times when this happened.

And of course, this is a minor thing, right?

I mean, you could reasonably argue, look, man, there's a lot more important things to get upset about.

But it was not just the fact in itself.

It was the inconceivability that somebody would be so clueless or so inconsiderate to actually do that kind of thing.

Oh, yeah.

You know, there are some people apparently who have not realized that we invented these wonderful things called earbuds.

You can put them in your ear and not bother anybody.

And I thought often, you know, when I used to get upset about the subway experience, I thought,

Maybe one of these days I just have to come into the subway with a very large boom box.

And as soon as I hear somebody doing that, turn my own at the highest possible volume to show him what it's going to happen.

You know, as a teaching lesson, not in a vindictive way, but as a teaching lesson.

You see what would happen if everybody were doing that?

I never actually did it, but it's been in the back of my mind for a while.

Marcus says, why do you expect people to be different from what they are?