Mike D. Becomes

A Misanthrope

Things that I forcibly ignored while future Nobel-laureate Salman Rushdie was reading an amazing unpublished story about big themes like age and death:

A woman loudly pouring and then shoving orange Tic-Tacs into her mouth.
A man compulsively checking his phone to see if Sox-Yankees was rained out.
Flash cameras specifically prohibited by the introducer.
An old couple putting on their rain ponchos and puttering out after 30 minutes.
The kid next to me staring at the ass of the girl two rows up.
My own growing intolerance of humanity.