I'm sitting in a waiting room, waiting for the mechanics to finish
changing the oil and rorate the tires. The TV is on,
but not the sound
. After five
minutes of the inane chatter of The Twenty-Four Hours of Talking Heads That
Masquerade as News Chanel, I had enough, and turned the sound down
entirely.
At the time, I was the only one here.
Now there are several other people here and it's amazing. They're
intently watching the TV, but not one
has complained about the sound being off. No one has made a move to up the
sound. They're just consuming the TV
as-is.
People are strange.
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![[With the TV in the room, I'm surprised they even have magazines.]](/2013/12/20/waitingroom.jpg "With the TV in the room, I'm surprised they even have magazines.")
