Pissing & Listening Whilst Brahms & Lisztening

Brass Instrument Urinals
It’s Friday evening and I’ve been watching TV. Of course, only the good stuff – QI, Death In Paradise, The Last Leg, the new Paradise. But at some point, TV has to end. It is time to get snuggly into bed. It is time to switch off. And this usually means it is time to plug in the headphones, load the music app and pick a playlist that is appropriate for my mood.

I prefer listening to music under the comfort of headphones. There is something about completely blocking out the world that is almost magical to me. I don’t live in a particularly noisy place, but it is still a city centre. At some point the pub over the road will ring last orders. If fog descends the cruise ships will sound their horns. I can’t stop the occasional siren from the emergency services. I also can’t stop the occasional need of the nature.

Up until last weekend, that usually involved clambering out of the warmth and security of the bed, facing the cold, and trudging to the bathroom. With device clasped in hand I had to carefully avoid two things: allowing the headphone cable to dip too low, and to also keep the headphone cable either to the left, or to the right. Never in the middle.

As of Friday though, I discovered an unintentional, but fairly obvious, advantage of Bluetooth headphones. And I don’t even need to balance my phone or tablet on the side shelf. And they’re noise cancelling, so I don’t even hear the splash.

Why has it taken me this long to embrace Bluetooth headphones!?

I am now free. Free to take a pee without interruption to the music, or having to clean the headphone’s cable post-piss.

Now that is freedom.