The 15-second loop

For the entire bus ride home yesterday, I sat near a man who, to my untrained eyes, had an obvious mental deficiency, despite the fact he was carrying a large file folder full of paperasse from the University. Although, bureaucracy being what it is, perhaps that is not so shocking.

In any case, the man was listening to some type of dance/R&B music on a Discman (old-school, I know) at what was an uncomfortable listening level for those of us seated around him. It must have been absolutely deafening inside his own head. What struck me was the fact that he was listening to the same loop of music, the first fifteen seconds of a certain track, over and over.

I was on the bus for about twenty minutes, and he continued to start the track over after hearing the passage he enjoyed the entire time. He was already on the bus when I got on, so who knows how long he did this.

Today's lesson: sometimes, people are a little eccentric.
Bonus lesson: sometimes, when it's just right, music can be greatest feeling in the world (I call this the goosebump effect)