Whistling normals

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I went to four Starbucks coffee houses today.

The first one was nice for about 10 minutes while I read my History of English Poetry by Courthope. Then one of the whistling baristas came into work, and kicked off his arrival by whistling absolute shrill nonsense into the echoing closed space of the cafe. I asked him to stop, which he did for about 5 minutes, but then continued again. I didn't feel like asking him a second time and so I left, leaving my drink unfinished on the table.

I went to another Starbucks coffee house and there was no place to sit.

I went to another Starbucks coffee house, ordered another drink, and sat down with my book. Another barista commenced whistling absolute nonsense. I asked him to please not do that because I have sensitive ears and the sound is discomfiting. He looked me in the eyes, did not acknowledge having heard me, and continued whistling. I tried to bear it for a few minutes, but I ended up not being able to stay at that place as well, leaving the a-hole whistler in triumph over my existence.

I went to another Starbucks and ordered another drink. No whistling. But by this point I was completely drained and unable to concentrate, and fantasizing about crushing the previous two whistlers under the tread of a tank.

Now I'm home, and my day is pretty much over. I have no energy left for anything and I'm thinking some pretty horrific stuff and wondering if death is really just like going to sleep.

Why does the sound of an a-hole whistling nonsense bother me so severely? I don't want to just sit in the house all the time. I want to be out among people part of the time. Yet I just can't take it. I really just can't take it.

Don't these people know that any one of them could develop the same damned problem I have at any time? There is nothing to prevent it. A head injury. Trauma. Chemical imbalance. Genetics. Who knows. But they willingly make the environment impossible for me to share with them. And out of what? Just sheer belligerence?

Today I feel hatred toward my fellow humans.

Maybe they had annoying whistlers syndrome.

Actually I can get why this is annoying and also why people do it. I have a stem where I tap my fingers and it annoys people. Ill be told to stop and then forget and continue doing it a few minutes later. It got lots of people annoyed with me when I went to school.

Maybe you just drink too much coffee

So...you kept buying coffee...and then leaving it there unfinished. Did it not occur to you to get your coffee TO GO and drink it elsewhere? Jeez. I'm sorry but people that just throw away money like that piss me off.