This one goes out to the two obnoxious twits in Craft & Design History — I paid my tuition so that I could come to class and listen to the professor talk, not your mindless chattering twice weekly. I showed up over an hour early on the day of the midterm, so that I could review my notes and collect my thoughts in peace; you could have chosen any other location in the world to do your exam review together, instead of annoying myself and the other students who were there to study quietly. Now for the rest of the semester, would you just shut the fuck up already?
This article appears in Oct 23-29, 2008.
If it irritated you so much why didn’t you speak up and tell them to shut up?
I actually did turn around once and asked them to be quiet, which they were for about 10 minutes, before the whispering started up again….