Realized that it doesn’t happen on the subway because there is not consistent WiFi in the travelling cars; how wonderful is that. Now and then someone plays their music too loud but other than that, subway riders are respectful of the noise level. The Bus however is another story. How often one has to listen to a conversation, until they can’t stand it anymore and have to suggest the person ‘lower the volume’. The other day it occurred to me, after watching a woman speaking softly into her phone, so as not to be an annoyance, only 20 years ago she and every other phone conversation holder would have been labeled for crazy. How our idea of what is ‘normal’ is changed. How easy it should be to ‘go with the flow’, go with changes, rather than digging our feet in, as if the way it has always been is the only way. We humans!