teenageers: the same everywhere?

Today I went to church at Beit Eliyahu and then took a (long) walk along about 1/2 the coastline of haifa, and a bus home. It turns out that there ARE busses that run on shabbot, as I had heard, but they don't go to the "mainly jewish only" parts of the city, such as the technion, but it's a short walk to where they do have them.

On the bus home, while waiting for the bus, there were two young teenagers who apparently thought the world should be blessed by their mp3 collection on their cell phones. Someone thought it was a good idea to make cell phones which can be turned up to near boombox sound levels, and these two kinds were just wandering around the bus station playing their music from their phones very loud. The one with the louder phone was also sporting a short mullet. Anyway, it wouldn't have been so bad except that they got on the same bus. :( Someone asked them to stop, but it only resulted in a slightly lower volume level and a change of seat. Haven't they heard of headphones? I need to learn the word "loud" so that I can tell them.

Also, this evening I ate the dragonfruit (or pitaya) that I bought.... see a picture of one here: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYtwtkctfoxBOYJvnTYmHWt99uBOyHmHDQihKLbIooJqG9iDIgZ5-pzqU5ERtkv-2APT3S6h1f61IhTRks7HLO4ohsppCtQcUkQcaHux1P_iqQDeeEKcKPRQulNPObRddwpm_dxyd5tEU/s320/DragonFruit.jpg

It's a very mild taste, not as sweet/sour as kiwis, but very much that texture. anyway, it looks cool.