Consider this situation. After a hard days work of 8 hrs being bombarded by paperwork, meetings and phone calls, when all you want to do is get home and you are going to be traveling the BART at 5pm and its a 45 minute ride and all you want to do is listen to your ipod or be content reading your fav author you expect your co-passengers to be in the same situation, or NOT?! This school kid probably in his early twenties who has an exceptionally loud voice is discussing history and other very booring mundane topics is actually eating into your song on the ipod! And its not just a one day situation- its an everyday situation. No matter, which carriage I board, the guy and his school mates are always around.I even once chose a carriage after making sure this character was not around, but after 2 stations went by, there he was emerging out of the compartment door and once again began chattering.Oh gosh---its a difficult Bart ride with this character in the background with the bommerang voice. What would anyone in my situation done??