It was all I could do to refrain from laughing out loud. True, reference desk is slow these days. Not much happening. I tend to clean out email and organize my H drive and do little projects that are the kind you can pick up and put down easily.
But this afternoon, I glanced up at two girls sitting in the Information Commons. They look like high school age and are new to our facility. They both had ear buds in and I could hear the bleed-through tinny sounding music and the bumping beat. I worry that this generation will all be deaf by the time they are 30. If I can hear clearly what they are listening to, it must be powerful loud right in their ears.
Anyway, they were so enjoying their music that they couldn't help dancing in their chairs. Their legs were bopping and their arms were waving and their heads were tilting something fierce while they mouthed the words. It was like watching some disco movie with the sound turned down real low. Several times they couldn't prevent themselves from singing out loud - not boisterously, but I could certainly hear them though I suspect they had no idea they were actually making a sound that could be heard! I would have asked them to stop, but there was no one else in the place and they weren't disturbing anyone. Besides - free floor show!
I sat there and watched them, smiling, for a good five or six minutes. Then the song must have ended, and they went back to surfing the web and playing their online games. Some days ya jist gotta dance with the music :)
But this afternoon, I glanced up at two girls sitting in the Information Commons. They look like high school age and are new to our facility. They both had ear buds in and I could hear the bleed-through tinny sounding music and the bumping beat. I worry that this generation will all be deaf by the time they are 30. If I can hear clearly what they are listening to, it must be powerful loud right in their ears.
Anyway, they were so enjoying their music that they couldn't help dancing in their chairs. Their legs were bopping and their arms were waving and their heads were tilting something fierce while they mouthed the words. It was like watching some disco movie with the sound turned down real low. Several times they couldn't prevent themselves from singing out loud - not boisterously, but I could certainly hear them though I suspect they had no idea they were actually making a sound that could be heard! I would have asked them to stop, but there was no one else in the place and they weren't disturbing anyone. Besides - free floor show!
I sat there and watched them, smiling, for a good five or six minutes. Then the song must have ended, and they went back to surfing the web and playing their online games. Some days ya jist gotta dance with the music :)
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