This is the mark of nerdery, but if I'm going to be stuck in one of those places, I bring in a psp and headphones to watch stuff - and avoid being subjected to fox news.

I had a book and tried to tune it out, but it was painfully loud and couldn't be avoided.

That's why I always carry a backup pair of earphones in my car's center console so I won't have to endure the agony of True Forced Listening of cable news in waiting rooms.

I went and got my tags renewed to find that the long twisty line now has Fox News blaring TV's every so many feet. It is a pure Kentucky government retard propaganda tool now, forced on us by the state as a captive audience.

I'm sure I'll be hearing from my relatives now (who think black people are werewolves, remember) about the evil minorities being forced into Kentucky (I know, I know).

Makes me grateful my license bureau just has the Weather Channel on their TV screens.

I once was stuck in a McDonalds during a snow storm, with nothing but Fox News playing. I got up, turned the televisions off. The manager actually stood there, SILENTLY GLARING AT ME, but knowing he couldn't do anything about it, just stood there for an absurdly long amount of time, trying to shame me into turning it back on.

I didn't.

And I had already eaten so there wasn't any way he could spit in my food or make my life worse. But there was no fucking way I was listening to Glenn Beck's all-singing, all-dancing Christmas Jesusland Extravaganza, WHICH IS WHAT WAS ON. It was even news. It was Glenn Beck introducing people singing the most Jesusy Christmas carols, punctuated by the occasional country musician singing about America.

Black alert.