Whistling in public

Ray Palmer · 02-01-2016 01:14PM #1

I was recently getting a flight and while waiting in the airport a guy sitting a few seats away started whistling. Just some random tune. After ten minutes of this I turn and stare at him which he seems to understand as a request to stop. Another 10 minutes later he starts up again, I look over again and he stops. Starts again 10 minutes later, stare, stop. About 30 minutes go by and we are all called to the plane.
Going down the walk way to the plane and a queue forms again in the tunnel like part and I hear this whistling echoing all around. It is this guy again who is behind me further down the queue. So I stand out of the queue and say " Excuse me. Would you mind not whistling it is incredibly irritating?" . No word from him but there is complete silence from everybody. I turn back into the queue and face the plane. Then this women is staring at me literally open mouthed as if I had insulted her. I look at her and say "Yes?" and she slowly turns around with the same expression like a cartoon character.

Am I the only one who thinks whistling around people who aren't paying to listen is irritating?

Mech1 · 02-01-2016 01:17PM

Lanzarote by any chance?

Mesrine65 · 02-01-2016 01:17PM

Go on out of it you narky bollix ye :pac::pac::pac:

Ruu · 02-01-2016 01:18PM

You are very easily irritated. Were they breathing too loud as well?

Peregrine · 02-01-2016 01:18PM

I can't whistle at all

c_man · 02-01-2016 01:19PM

I really like hearing random whistling tunes when walking around. Particularly in the morning. How could you be in a bad mood with a nice tune in your heart!

No word from him but there is complete silence from everybody.

There were all secretly hoping they wouldn't have to sit beside you!

mad muffin · 02-01-2016 01:22PM

There is a time and a place for whistling. When your whacking someone's head open with a baseball bat, like a ripe melon.

Ray Palmer · 02-01-2016 01:23PM

Ruu wrote: »

Were they breathing too loud as well?

Very predictable comment. I could hear him over my headphones

whatismyname · 02-01-2016 01:28PM

You sound very passive aggressive in that encounter.

Ray Palmer · 02-01-2016 01:31PM

whatismyname wrote: »

You sound very passive aggressive in that encounter.

I am not disagreeing, I was annoyed and I think he provoked me by stopping and starting.

glued · 02-01-2016 01:34PM

Ray Palmer wrote: »

I am not disagreeing, I was annoyed and I think he provoked me by stopping and starting.

Ah yes, whistling! The ultimate provocation!

Provoked by someone whistling? Seriously get a life and a lighten up. You sound like a sour old bugger!

Ray Palmer · 02-01-2016 01:43PM

glued wrote: »

Ah yes, whistling! The ultimate provocation!

Provoked by someone whistling? Seriously get a life and a lighten up. You sound like a sour old bugger!

Well I did no more than he did by making a sound in response to his.:p I wasn't the only person who had been looking at him in the airport and others looking around trying to figure out who was doing it.

Fleawuss · 02-01-2016 01:44PM

Guess you'd have no time for the whistling gypsy coming over the hill

whomitconcerns · 02-01-2016 01:46PM

Try getting this whistle song out of your head

The_Valeyard · 02-01-2016 01:46PM

'The great escape' is a lot of fun to whistle to.

MadDog76 · 02-01-2016 01:48PM

Ray Palmer wrote: »

I was recently getting a flight and while waiting in the airport a guy sitting a few seats away started whistling. Just some random tune. After ten minutes of this I turn and stare at him which he seems to understand as a request to stop. Another 10 minutes later he starts up again, I look over again and he stops. Starts again 10 minutes later, stare, stop. About 30 minutes go by and we are all called to the plane.
Going down the walk way to the plane and a queue forms again in the tunnel like part and I hear this whistling echoing all around. It is this guy again who is behind me further down the queue. So I stand out of the queue and say " Excuse me. Would you mind not whistling it is incredibly irritating?" . No word from him but there is complete silence from everybody. I turn back into the queue and face the plane. Then this women is staring at me literally open mouthed as if I had insulted her. I look at her and say "Yes?" and she slowly turns around with the same expression like a cartoon character.

Am I the only one who thinks whistling around people who aren't paying to listen is irritating?

Unbelievable ......... my response to you would have been "Excuse me. Would you mind dying as soon as possible please? Your existence is incredibly irritating, f*ck you very much."

Arbiter of Good Taste · 02-01-2016 01:48PM

glued wrote: »

Ah yes, whistling! The ultimate provocation!

Provoked by someone whistling? Seriously get a life and a lighten up. You sound like a sour old bugger!

Why? Why is whistling any less annoying than some jerk shouting into a mobile phone in public?

whatismyname · 02-01-2016 01:49PM

Ray Palmer wrote: »

Well I did no more than he did by making a sound in response to his.:p I wasn't the only person who had been looking at him in the airport and others looking around trying to figure out who was doing it.

The passive aggressiveness that I was referring to was the multiple episodes of starting at someone in an attempt to get them to stop what they were doing - so no sound made here in response to his.

Insect Overlord · 02-01-2016 01:53PM

Trí chomhartha an bhligeaird: fiosracht, feirc, agus feadaíl!

(3 traits of a rogue: curiosity, a cocked hat, and conspicuous whistling)

Ray Palmer · 02-01-2016 01:56PM

whatismyname wrote: »

The passive aggressiveness that I was referring to was the multiple episodes of starting at someone in an attempt to get them to stop what they were doing - so no sound made here in response to his.

Again I am not disagreeing. It is irritating thing and in itself seen as a passive aggressive dominance action

Eugene Norman · 02-01-2016 02:00PM

Ray Palmer wrote: »

I was recently getting a flight and while waiting in the airport a guy sitting a few seats away started whistling. Just some random tune. After ten minutes of this I turn and stare at him which he seems to understand as a request to stop. Another 10 minutes later he starts up again, I look over again and he stops. Starts again 10 minutes later, stare, stop. About 30 minutes go by and we are all called to the plane.
Going down the walk way to the plane and a queue forms again in the tunnel like part and I hear this whistling echoing all around. It is this guy again who is behind me further down the queue. So I stand out of the queue and say " Excuse me. Would you mind not whistling it is incredibly irritating?" . No word from him but there is complete silence from everybody. I turn back into the queue and face the plane. Then this women is staring at me literally open mouthed as if I had insulted her. I look at her and say "Yes?" and she slowly turns around with the same expression like a cartoon character.

Am I the only one who thinks whistling around people who aren't paying to listen is irritating?

One of the things that sane adults learn is that they are not the only people in the world.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 02-01-2016 02:00PM

I'd rather hear a tune whistled than the tssh tssh tssh from someone's earphones.

Ray Palmer · 02-01-2016 02:02PM

MadDog76 wrote: »

Unbelievable ......... my response to you would have been "Excuse me. Would you mind dying as soon as possible please? Your existence is incredibly irritating, f*ck you very much."

Fair enough, I was quite prepared for that type of response as an expect-able.

He was aware he was irritating at least one person over his personal amusement. I personally wouldn't do that to others, I don't get why anybody would. Can you explain?

Ray Palmer · 02-01-2016 02:03PM

Zahir Gentle Against wrote: »

I'd rather hear a tune whistled than the tssh tssh tssh from someone's earphones.

Me too, it was a podcast:D

whatismyname · 02-01-2016 02:04PM

Zahir Gentle Against wrote: »

I'd rather hear a tune whistled than the tssh tssh tssh from someone's earphones.

Same and I'd rather hear a tune whistled than know I was acting the eejit towards someone by staring at them.

Mesrine65 · 02-01-2016 02:05PM

& if your passive-aggressive outburst was met with an aggressive response?

RobbingBandit · 02-01-2016 02:06PM

Must be ****e earphones OP.

xLANDRYNx · 02-01-2016 02:06PM

I hate it too when they do it in public.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 02-01-2016 02:08PM

Ray Palmer wrote: »

Me too, it was a podcast:D

So I'd hear sqawk, tssh, buzz, twee, tssh?

AppleBottle · 02-01-2016 02:11PM

It wouldn't annoy or irritate me.

MadDog76 · 02-01-2016 02:16PM

Ray Palmer wrote: »

Fair enough, I was quite prepared for that type of response as an expect-able.

He was aware he was irritating at least one person over his personal amusement. I personally wouldn't do that to others, I don't get why anybody would. Can you explain?

I wouldn't go out of my way to irritate anybody but sometimes it happens and, as an adult, I'm prepared to be mildly, if unintentionally, irritated by the general public without losing it .......... people eating with their mouth open, people talking too loudly, people tapping their finger-nails on a hard surface, people whistling, people humming, people with irritating (to me) accents are all things that may mildly irk me when in public but the world's for everyone and everyone is entitled to go about their day chewing gum loudly (for example) if they wish without being reprimanded by some random stranger who has decided that he/she would like you to stop laughing because it's a "very irritating laugh!".

It's rude to approach and speak to a stranger in the manner that you did ........ it would invoke an equally rude response from me.

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