#67. Headphones
Music created the necessity of privacy. Headphones are the instruments of personal space. Whether it is getting on a bus full of teenage mums or stuck in a queue of bog roll wielding middle age mums at a supermarket checkout, headphones are the perfect excuse to shut yourself away from planet banality AND not hear what some guffer had for tea last night whilst they are waiting for their pension.
Headphones can also transpose you into a different world entirely so that your trip to work is still enjoyable and realism is denied until you have to take the things off and listen to your inane workmates.
My pair also conveniently blockout both the missus's babble and this weeks TV (x-factor ATM). Sennheiser- I Love you.