Airhead
I was talking to an artisan friend in the tourist area. A young tourist walked past, wearing a pair of Airpods; tall, tousled blonde hair, wearing a red sleeveless sweat top, shorts, looked a bit like the actor in Blue Lagoon. He stopped about three meters from us to read the menu pinned outside the Japanese restaurant. I said to my friend, who is only a tolerated friend, 'See that guy? He's microwaving his brain with those Airpods. There goes our future." I rabbited on a bit more about how I can't believe people wear those brain-frying headphones, especially the young, who should know better, and added, 'I wonder if he can hear us?' In a hot flash, which I never got coz menopause came and went like a thief in the night, Airhead strode over and said, 'Yes, I can hear you!' I asked him if he knew that his headphones were messing with his brain and that he was probably vaccinated, too. His reply, ignoring the info I had shared about the Airpods, was,