Escaping Annoying People

3 Things that stress me out:

Hot days.

Annoying people.

Standing too close to annoying people on hot days.

Hah!

I love the above quote…but to better fit a situation I encountered/endured recently, I would change it to…

3 things that stress me out:

#1. Annoying people.

#2. Annoying people sitting behind me on a packed plane.

#3. Annoying people sitting behind me on a packed plane…and I don’t have any earplugs with me.

Generally speaking, I can handle a decent amount of stress in life…but noise pollution, especially of the human variety, can push my stress-o-meter buttons like nobody’s business.

And speaking of nobody’s business and human noise pollution, I (and my fellow passengers) had the bad luck to be seated in close proximity to a Very Loud & Annoying Woman on the plane the other day.

Thankfully, it was only a two-hour flight. But two hours can feel like twenty-two hours…if an annoying person Does Not Shut Up. As perhaps you can guess, the Very Loud & Annoying Woman did not shut up. This meant that her business became our business…whether we wanted to…