The bus is crowded and noisy enough that I have to end my phone conversation prematurely. At a stop two blocks further, twelve twenty-somethings exit the bus talking and joking. Their departure makes it painfully clear that they were the source of almost all the noise. However, the sudden and contrasting silence is so forceful that no other passenger attempts to break it. Apart from extremely brief, necessary communication, the next ten stops go by without a word spoken.
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