# Anticipatory Bitching

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anticipatory-bitching/46540>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 20, 2000, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anticipatory-bitching/46540 "2000-12-20T17:16:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anticipatory-bitching/46540/21 "2000-12-22T21:39:34Z")

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For the first leg of my Christmas/vacation trip, I will be taking a Bonanza bus from NYC to Providence. To my fellow bus riders, I would say:

**Must** you talk on your cell phone for the whole three-plus hours? Could you fucking well turn your walkman down a notch? And please, for the love of all that is good and holy, **please** do not tell me about your illness for 45 minutes! I just want to watch the horrible movie in peace. Is that so much to ask?

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