Had a weird moment on the 7 bus last month that made me rethink headphones

So it was a Tuesday morning around 8:15 and I was on the 7 bus in Denver heading downtown. This guy gets on with a bluetooth speaker playing classical music at full volume, no headphones. Everyone was annoyed at first, but after a few stops I noticed people were actually bobbing their heads and smiling. A woman next to me said "this is way better than hearing someone's tinny earbuds leak through." By the time I got off at 16th Street, I realized we spend so much time isolating ourselves with headphones that we forget how nice shared sounds can be in small doses. Has anyone else had a moment where something annoying on a commute turned out to be kinda nice?

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shanelee5h ago

Denver's 7 bus is actually the Colfax line, not the 16th Street one.