Other Students Kept Blasting Music on the Bus—Then One High Schooler Connected to the Bluetooth
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Folks, it’s time to get brutally honest: I think my biggest current pet peeve is people who listen to music on their phones in public without headphones.
In fact, I’m so fired up about this, I’m considering writing my Congressman to introduce a bill to make it illegal.
That’s how annoying it is!
Well, to me at least…
In today’s story, a high schooler talked about how they got some petty revenge on a group of kids who forced everyone on a bus to listen to their terrible music.
Check out what happened!
Became the Bluetooth Bandit.
“I live in South Asia.
When I was in 12th grade, a bunch of new 11th graders started taking the same college bus as me.
They had that “we’re the coolest people here” attitude and would blast Nepalese rap through the bus speakers every single day.
The problem wasn’t just that it was loud. It was 5:30 in the morning.
This sounds brutal…
We had to listen to it for nearly an hour on the way to college, then again on the ride home. The songs were full of profanity, drug references, and degrading lyrics. It got old very quickly.
Several students, including me, politely asked them multiple times to either lower the volume, use headphones, or at least play something everyone could tolerate that early in the morning.
They ignored us and even complained about us behind our backs.
Time for a plan.
So I came up with a harmless solution.
My bus stop was the first one on the route, which meant I was always the first passenger on the bus.
Every morning, I’d connect my phone to the bus’s Bluetooth before anyone else got on. Then I’d put in my earbuds and pretend I was listening to my own music.
Worked like a charm!
When the group got on, they tried to connect to the Bluetooth but couldn’t. They would disconnect my phone, and I would connect again before they could.
After a while, they started asking everyone on the bus if anyone was connected to the speakers.
The rest of us just shrugged and said no.
This went on for months.
They never caught on.
Sometimes I let them use it in the morning just so it wouldn’t become too obvious, but most of the time the bus stayed blissfully quiet. The rest of us finally got to enjoy a peaceful ride instead of being forced to listen to their playlist at dawn.
Petty? Absolutely.
Worth it? Also absolutely.”
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Just reading this story made my blood boil…
But at least there was a happy ending!
Hooray!
People who listen to music loudly in public need to be shut down immediately!
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