# Why?!?!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 15, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433 "2003-05-15T13:48:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/41 "2003-05-15T23:03:34Z")
When I went to the YMCA’s pool once, I put a lock on my locker, and put my clothes in. When I got back, the lock was gone, but nothing else was. Just the lock. I don’t know how the got it open, or what good they thought it would be without a key. My guess is that they didn’t think it over before doing it. I also had a pair of gym shoes stolen, but they were returned a few weeks later. They just showed back up in my locker. How fucking bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/42 "2003-05-15T23:04:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by troub \* > \*\*No shit, **Nametag**! I love music as much as anyone else, but there’s a time and place for everything, and class is **not** the time to be listening to music. What the hell kind of schools do you fucking kids go to these days where the teachers don’t give a shit if anyone’s listening or not? You’re telling me that your keyboarding teacher has absolutely nothing to say the entire class period? I would always take something on school trips to help with a 2-4 hour bus ride, but everyday!? In class!? I have no sympathy for your soft, spoiled, whiny ass. \*\* You may have had a point somewhere, but then you opened your mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/43 "2003-05-16T02:37:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duke \* > \*\*_rimshot_ > 😃 \*\* But, see…if you describe the picture, it ruins the joke… Well, maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![johnboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47c2d/32.png) [@johnboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnboy)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/44 "2003-05-16T03:34:19Z")
When I was a wee lad I had my Cheater Slick (the rich kids had Schwinn Orange Crates) bicycle stolen from the garage. I was devastated. I found out later that one of the neighborhood thugs (who my older brother was trying to get in good with) had taken it and my big brother eventually found out about it and did nothing. I was even devastated-er! ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/45 "2003-05-16T05:42:53Z")
For my tenth birthday, my grandparents bought me a bike. About a month later, I took it to my grandparents home, and while we were asleep, it was stolen. I was devestated, but, they bought me a new one, that looked exactly like that, then, a week later, that one was stolen out of my garage. Someone once stole a lightbulb from our house. It was a blue one that we used for when it got foggy, they stole it out of our lamp. In the 8th grade, during testing, I brought my CD player to school, this one big guy, the one guy everyone knows is going to end up in prison, tried to rob me. Not when I wasn’t looking, the jackass told me to hand it over to him. Last year, someone stole my P.E. clothes out of my locker, they it had been at least two weeks since they were washed. I no longer take ANYTHING to school. Hate being scrawny. ---
**Author:** ![mallocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@mallocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mallocks)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/46 "2003-05-16T09:48:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Encinitas \* > \*\*Heh! Back in the day I used to carry 2 rocks around and bang them together for music. Occasionally I’d wack a pig carcass with a stick for a change of tempo. \*\* [Monty Python] Luxury I only had one rock. And no stick. Nor a pig carcass. But I was happy, though I was poor. [/Monty Python] ---
**Author:** ![abbaZaba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90ced4/32.png) [@abbaZaba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abbaZaba)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/47 "2003-05-16T10:25:17Z")
sounds like im not the only person who gets stuff stolen ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/48 "2003-05-16T12:37:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Waverly \* > \*\*Pffft. We didn’t _have_ CDs when I went to school. You ever try carrying around an LP player and portable generator? No, I thought not. We used to hum tunes on kazoos… and we _liked_ it. \*\* You had _Kazoos?!?_ All we had were sticks and rocks to bang together! ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/49 "2003-05-16T12:39:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Encinitas \* > \*\*Heh! Back in the day I used to carry 2 rocks around and bang them together for music. Occasionally I’d wack a pig carcass with a stick for a change of tempo. \*\* Oops. I’ll read the whole thread, next time. I swear. ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/50 "2003-05-16T15:23:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by abbaZaba \* > \*\*I listen to a CD player in my classes \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeeves \* > **I honestly doubt that anybody is listening to music in class.** > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by World Eater_ > **You may have had a point somewhere, but then you opened your mouth.** So, the kid who got his radio stolen _says_ “I listen to a CD player in my classes,” and I blast him for it, and then you assholes rip on me saying that he’s right to have it there in the first place? Furthermore, if I ever took a tape/CD player to school, and had it _anywhere_ where it would have been inappropriate (such as _any_ classroom or study hall) I wouldn’t have to worry about a bully taking it, because it would’ve been taken by a _teacher_. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeeves \* > **or used the cdplayer on the computer for music.** Now _there’s_ an idea that makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/51 "2003-05-16T15:33:35Z")
what’s wrong with having a walkman in study hall? I need music to study. ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/52 "2003-05-16T15:40:03Z")
At all but the absolute _lowest_ volume levels, it is disruptive to the person sitting next to you. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/53 "2003-05-16T15:41:50Z")
well, I don’t know where you went to school, but my study hall was in the library, and I was almost always in the back corner looking for sex books. I was of no disturbance to anyone. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wrong_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/54 "2003-05-16T15:45:34Z")
> [@](#): > > At all but the absolute lowest volume levels, it is disruptive to the person sitting next to you. Not necessarily, if you have those teeny-tiny headphones that you stick directly into your ear. Geez, I’m thinking some people had a childhood trauma with a walkman or something from some of the reactions in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/55 "2003-05-16T15:47:20Z")
SPOOFE stole your toothbrush. ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/56 "2003-05-16T15:48:32Z")
🙂 My study hall, as I assumed most others were, was a large room with several large tables, with about 4 (usually at least two) seated at each table. It was also supposed to be _quiet_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wrong_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/57 "2003-05-16T15:51:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by troub \* > \*\*🙂 > > My study hall, as I assumed most others were, was a large room with several large tables, with about 4 (usually at least two) seated at each table. It was also supposed to be _quiet_. \*\* Totally cool, but not everyone’s study hall is like that, clearly. But I guess we’ve established that. 🙂 Sucks about the discman, **abbaZabba**. ---
**Author:** ![abbaZaba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90ced4/32.png) [@abbaZaba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abbaZaba)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/58 "2003-05-16T18:46:35Z")
**The Wrong Girl** there is on ‘B’ in Zaba anyway, **troub,** we are ALLOWED to listen to music in keyboarding class and are encouraged to bring music for everyone else to listen too. also, i do have the tiny headphones that stink in my ears so hardly anyone can listen to what i hear. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wrong_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/59 "2003-05-16T19:51:21Z")
Yeesh. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/60 "2003-05-17T02:47:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*SPOOFE stole your toothbrush. \*\* How many posts did that take??? More than FIFTY??? Man, we are slackers!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433.md?page=2)