Idiocy and annoyance at 38,000 feet

This lady two rows in front of me was playing some hand-held game (think cheap GameBoy with a single game) with volume on max. Everyone is annoyed, no one wants to say anything for fear that she'll have a heart attack when criticized. Finally, some courageous guy in front asks her to mute it and she has no idea what he's talking about. SHE'S WEARING EAR PLUGS! Remember that line in "Fight Club" about old widows letting their hearing aids go and having to watch game shows at full volume? So, anyway, now she can't find the volume, and we spend two minutes listening to her character being beaten to death as she keeps flipping the game around tring to figure out where the volumizer nob is. Times like these, I wish her family did a bit of thinking and gotten her a cup with a ball on a string.