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Originally Posted by nathantw
I basically use the headphones as ear plugs or a sign to people saying "don't bother me." Unfortunately that never works and people still bother me.
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I learned a trick for that from a behavioral study I read an article on about ... 20 years ago, you're going to laugh, but it works.
What you do is let your tongue stick out of your mouth very slightly, so that it's visible between your lips (so it looks kind of like you have three lips), but not hanging way out. I don't know why, but folks tend to leave you alone a lot more when you do this.
Try it while walking through a store where you know that lots of sales people will come and ask if they can help you (stores that pay on commission are prime candidates for the experiment), you'll notice that most of them leave you alone. (This is the main way I use this little trick, by the way)