It’s especially frustrating if you’re older and still have really good hearing.
Can’t go out to eat without it being super uncomfortable in some restaurants (looking at you my favorite local gastropub!), or going out and coming home with a noise induced headache.
Also looking at you Imax (and most movie theaters)!
Boisterous might be the fitting adjective.
I have friends who have numerous speakers in their house and constantly play loud music. When I visit for dinner and after the guest have been drinking the music volume and voice levels rise louder. I’ve brought earplugs a few times to survive. Is that rude? I like my friends not their overly loud music.
Yeah the acoustics … but holy shmoly the interior design screams …
Looks like the furniture storeroom of a russian oligarch exploded all over the restaurant.
Actually no. You have to physically be in the space and you would understand. It feels like you walked into a 1950/60 vegas restaurant. The paintings on the wall are amazing. The ceiling is old film reels.
It’s actually really cool. Honest.
And it becomes circular—i.e., as people drink, they lose some ability to hear, and so start talking louder, so drink more, lose more of their ability to hear, and talk even louder…
Take it up a notch.
Find out if their smart TVs will accept a cast from your phone or other device. Control the vertical!
I feel like I just leveled up…
Lol. I went to a burger place that had a dj. Not only was his music selection awful (and loud) but he was literally just clicking on songs from a playlist, no actual dj’ing involved. I emailed the restaurant and told them that not only was having a dj at a restaurant inappropriate, he was ripping them off.
I didn’t see him when I went two weeks later. Justice!
Being part of the demographic that always has a shovel and steel-toed boots in the car, I also carry earplugs in my purse. I use them more often for movie theaters than for power tools.
There is also a proliferation of television sets, often multiple, tuned to sports or moron level talk/fake courtroom reality shows, often multiple, with each one competing for volume.
Even restaurants I’d consider higher class often have one or more babble boxes yammering away in the dining room and especially in the bar where loud, drunken sports fans (is there any other sort?) scream in delight/outrage as whatever is going on onscreen goes on.
And the casual dining places? Ah yes, little Precious is having an emotional melt down, let’s take him or hero out for dinner so the screaming fits won’t annoy the neighbors and get us another injunction from the condo associaiton and maybe if we let him or her run around the place and yank food off other people’s tables or simply climb over the booth partition to offer juice box soaked hands to all and sundries’ clothing, he or she will feel validated.
I’ve been told I have the sound-processing disorder. And that was by a medical-center hearing clinic, not a storefront hearing aid place.
The bad news is, there is no treatment. Hearing aids don’t help.
The good news is that I can use the line, “It’s all in my head.”
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