Car radio rant

[Sue]

Why do people sit in their bloody cars/vans for what seems like hours with their bloody radios blaring out full blast, and why is it always within earshot of the room I work in?

I'm at the point of going downstairs with a brick. A very very large brick.

ETA: Every cloud. I went down (without a brick) and it turned out to be someone in the same road I've never met even though he's lived here nearly as long as I have :)

And he was very apologetic, so all good :)

[DulwichFox]

I suppose that at a certain age our tolerance to NOISE decreases.

One has to look on the positive side, that having reached that certain age after

decades of listening to loud music ourselves, we still have some semblance of hearing intact. :)

Foxy

[Jules-and-Boo]

Tolerance to noise plummets when I am busy / concentrating or tired.

Well done Sue - stood your ground AND met a new friend :-)

Some people would have just thrown the brick.

[Sue]

Jules-and-Boo Wrote:

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> Tolerance to noise plummets when I am busy /

> concentrating or tired.

>

> Well done Sue - stood your ground AND met a new

> friend :-)

>

> Some people would have just thrown the brick.

To balance that, a week or so back a similar thing happened, but in this case the person in the car was switching from station to station every thirty seconds or so and I could hear the noise from the other end of my house.

Funnily enough the car was parked over the road in about the same place as today (different car though).

I was really wound up and I went down and had a rant (no bricks thrown though).

The woman was speechless, but she did turn it off.

Unfortunately when I got back upstairs I looked out of the window to see if she was still in her car, and saw her going into a house opposite.

:( or :)) depending on how you look at it. I never recognise people, so that is potentially extremely embarrassing :))

Guess I won't be getting a Christmas card :))

[Jules-and-Boo]

ooops. I imagine she feels as awkward about it as you do.

I hope, one day when you see her, you can smile, admit to how awkward it is and maybe allow both of you to laugh about it.

Or, send her a card...one that plays Christmas Carols :-)

[Robert Poste's Child]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> I suppose that at a certain age our tolerance to

> NOISE decreases.

You're obviously not a woman: at a certain our our tolerance to EVERYTHING completely bloody disappears.

[maxxi]

Sue Wrote:

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> Guess I won't be getting a Christmas card :))

Yeah you will - one of those that, when opened, plays the same insanely loud and tinny version of Jingle Bells over and over and over....

[Sue]

Lol J&B, RPC and M.

Unfortunately I will probably worsen the situation because as I never recognise anybody I have probably already blanked her in the street.

I used to just smile at everybody just in case, but I got more glares than smiles back :(

[Robert Poste's Child]

You're not alone, Sue. After glaring at a man who kept looking at me in Sainsbury's the other day I realised he's been living next door to me for two years.

[Sue]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> You're not alone, Sue. After glaring at a man who

> kept looking at me in Sainsbury's the other day I

> realised he's been living next door to me for two

> years.

:)) :)) :))