56 - Sunday, October 5,.1986 - North Shore News

SNOBBERY SUSPECTED

Are headsets rude? | A Wild Week Guaranteed! |

DEAR MISS MANNERS — Please address the subject of
portable stereo headsets that people are so fond of wearing

everywhere these days.

I work as a sales clerk, and
sometimes a person will come up
to the counter to buy something
with the headphones in place and
the sadio on. I think it is very
rude, and sometimes I feel fike
mouthing my words rather than
speaking them.

by Judith
Martin

GENTLE READER — Actually,
Miss Manners loves those headsets.
She has never had a pair on in her
life — they don’t really go with
chignons — but she thinks them a
marvelously polite way for people
who want to hear noise all the time
to do so without intruding rudely
on the right of others to listen to
birds, silence or their own
thoughts.

tion of those wearing them is often
taken as an affront by people with
litle claim on that attention.
Because she herself is treated with
indulgent smiles for walking down
the street or standing in lines
reading a book, which is probably
more absorbing and _ therefore
potentially more Jangerous, Miss
Manners suspects some snobbery

BRITISH COLUMBIA
INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY

in the condemnation of headset
wearers.

It would be rude tu listen — or
to read — while supposedly talking
to someone. To do so when one
wants someone to answer a ques-
tion, as in the situation you
describe, is merely foolish. If you
want to point this out by mouthing
your reply, Miss Manners deems
that an acceptable and even amus-
ing way to get the point across,
provided you do it with a polite
smile.

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Guy

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That headsets engross the atten-

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