Honestly, yeah. How do you explain that? You kinda just have to hope that the other person respects your wish and stops.
Yuh, that’s partially cause those noises (music) are pleasurable, I’ve been getting into Waterparks recently and some of their songs give me the tingling feeling all around my shoulders and head that I’ve been missing from Deathcore bands (my most recent obsession) recently.
The clicking of pens on the other hand…
Computer noises are the focus in the festival setting, it’s not a distraction.
Pen clicks are little momentary brain erasers that rip the attention you’re so desperately trying to focus away from the thing you’re focusing on, and now you have to struggle constantly to get it back with each one.
Pen clicks would be no problem if you were intentionally focusing on someone clicking their pen.
I might be a weirdo but I will click a clickable pen almost 99% of the time, but with others around I will make a conscious effort to muffle the click noise.
And I may or may not even hear someone else doing it as I kinda find it soothing, as long as they keep a rhythm. Don’t be the all over the place click monster!
My boss is the worst for this. We’ll be sitting on a call in our conference room and he’ll start clicking his pen. Or playing with his water bottle. Or slapping his lips. After seven years I haven’t committed murder yet, though.
