It started out as what I had expected: an innocent Thursday. I had my AP Lit essay safely tucked away in my folder, my hot, caffeine-loaded tea in one hand, and what I assumed to be the proper attitude needed in order to brace the storm of a typical day at BHS. But as I made my way to math class, I didn’t expect to hear something in the 1600s that stopped me in my tracks and filled me with a sudden rage I couldn’t have predicted.

“Oh my god! Can you believe that BLANK is the red devil in Scream Queens!! And wasn’t it crazy when they murdered BLANK and then got away with it?! Wow!”

I turned my head and with a lethal scowl, the cluster of sophomore girls loitering in front of the bathroom dispersed. Those girls had just single-handedly ruined the latest show I had been enjoying by revealing the biggest, and most anticipated hook of the season.

They were just innocently discussing the latest reveal on a campy-horror series and I have since forgiven them for their spoiler slip but I expect it to be a common courtesy not to reveal the juiciest elements of the latest binge-worthy TV shows at astounding decibels in the halls. There are reasons shows like “Scream Queens” have gained such an impressive viewership of around 7.3 million people and, yes, many tune in for the pastel dreamland wardrobe and the wacky celebrity guest appearances, but others, like me, have stuck with it to finally learn the identity of the mysterious, rogue red devil. (But I still drool over the clothes and Nick Jonas too.)

Television is an escape. A welcomed-outlet of distraction and maybe a tool to procrastinate studying for your French oral. And the only way for me to fully enjoy this fictitious and potentially academically-damaging vice, is to completely immerse myself in the show. And that is hard to do when the biggest reveal is shouted across the hall while I’m on my way to lunch.

On the other hand, if something has existed for more years than you’ve been on this earth, you do not have any right to get upset about overhearing that Gatsby gets shot. Classic novels and movies are constantly referred to in modern discussion and if you think that hearing that Boo Radley is actually a good guy will ruin your day, you need to do some simple math and calculate how long that piece of work has existed and then compare that to your much smaller age.

Of course, most times spoiling something is an unintentional, simple mistake. However, I don’t think it’s too much to ask that people check with everyone around them that they are caught up on the most-recent episode and speak in inside voices.

But I’ll never be able to look past the people who ruin shows on purpose. These individuals get a disturbing, twisted pleasure from intentionally revealing the latest twists and surprises of recent TV shows and it is sick. I find it extremely cruel and if you realize you are one of these people, I encourage you to look deep inside yourself and sort some things out before you push someone over the edge for spilling the beans about the latest Shonda Rhimes surprise.