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[Lightning Strykez!]

Maybe he had superhuman hearing

Perhaps.

What were you listening to anyway?

This song was about mid-way through when he touched me.


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That's why I was like, "how can you possibly hear that?" It's such a mellow song. However, when the next track came up, I turned my s*** back up to where it was.


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The message of the second song really fit my mood at that point too.

 

[The Question]

You brought up that there's no way he could have heard your music. People have different levels of auditory sensitivity. Just today I went to a charity concert. All of my friends could stand inside the hall where it was just fine. I had to listen from the hallway. I could barely stand by the door. So he could have had much more sensitive hearing. Plus, saying that the volume on youtube was at half doesn't tell me anything. Some youtube video are inherently louder or softer than others at the same volume level.

Also, none of that matters. It's not a big deal and not worth complaining about.

 

[Manic]

What really amazes me about this whole thing is that LS! was so offended about someone asked him to turn down the volume on his laptop that he needed to make a thread about it.

Talk about tetchy.

 

[Paroxysm]

 

[The Question]

What really amazes me about this whole thing is that LS! was so offended about someone asked him to turn down the volume on his laptop that he needed to make a thread about it.

Talk about tetchy.

Also, I listened to the song. It is actually kind of loud at halfway volume. Depending in the headphone quality, you could very likely hear that. Also, again, it doesn't matter.

 

[E-Man]

You shoulda shoved a lightning bolt up his ass. Samuel L. Jackson would have done it, and you should always do what Samuel L. would do.

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

What really amazes me about this whole thing is that LS! was so offended about someone asked him to turn down the volume on his laptop that he needed to make a thread about it.

Talk about tetchy.

Touchy? Meh. I have my days, to be sure. But Manic, I would never have the audacity to ask someone in a public venue to change their rhythm to suit my personal standards. Especially when they've already taken pains to be discreet. To ask for more than that accomodation is just presumptuousness at its zenith.

However, I do think some of you are missing some of the details of what happened--and the reasons why I was offended. Whether that's deliberate, or just skim-reading of the thread I'm not sure...and it really doesn't matter. You're putting yourselves in his shoes, versus mine. And that's okay--it's all relative anyway. I just had to get my feelings off my chest somehow...and I work here, so...

But considering that I did spare him the full wrath of what I was thinking, I feel I did pretty f***ing good, my venting on this thread notwithstanding.

I guess this is a situation where the old saying has great meaning: "I guess you had to be there."

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

You shoulda shoved a lightning bolt up his ass. Samuel L. Jackson would have done it, and you should always do what Samuel L. would do.

LOL

If he hadn't been showing all 32s I would've struck him where he stood, Samuel L. Jackson be damned. But his smiling was a little disarming at first, until I realized what it was he asking me to do.

 

[The Question]

Touchy? Meh. I have my days, to be sure. But Manic, I would never have the audacity to ask someone in a public venue to change their rhythm to suit my personal standards. Especially when they've already taken pains to be discreet. To ask for more than that accomodation is just presumptuousness at its zenith.

However, I do think some of you are missing some of the details of what happened--and the reasons why I was offended. Whether that's deliberate, or just skim-reading of the thread I'm not sure...and it really doesn't matter. You're putting yourselves in his shoes, versus mine. And that's okay--it's all relative anyway. I just had to get my feelings off my chest somehow...and I work here, so...

But considering that I did spare him the full wrath of what I was thinking, I feel I did pretty f***ing good, my venting on this thread notwithstanding.

I guess this is a situation where the old saying has great meaning: "I guess you had to be there."

I think we did put ourselves in your shoes and thought that if it had happened to us, we'd have turned it down a little and thought nothing of it by the time we got home. I'm really not getting where the presumption or audacity thing is coming from.

 

[katie_girl09]

Touchy? Meh. I have my days, to be sure. But Manic, I would never have the audacity to ask someone in a public venue to change their rhythm to suit my personal standards. Especially when they've already taken pains to be discreet. To ask for more than that accomodation is just presumptuousness at its zenith.

Now you're just being a drama queen, dude.

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

I'm really not getting where the presumption or audacity thing is coming from.

Really? So you have someone who is reading a book in a loud and busy cafe full of TGIFers who decides to take it upon himself to curtail the volume of someone wearing headphones. And there's already music playing over his head. It's a f***ing party zone. Everyone is having a good time. And dude...wants to read his book in peace and quiet.

I have a hard time believing he could concentrate reading his book with this

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playing from speakers over his head. My headphone music was the least of the noise in the room at the time. That's why I was insulted. You wanna read your book? Fine. But go home if you want peace and quiet. Not everyone here is gonna stop breathing so you can read.

I'm genuinely surprised that this concept is not jiving with some of you.

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

Now you're just being a drama queen, dude.

You're just taken by the fact that he was polite about asking someone to inconvenience themselves. LOL

 

[Manic]

Touchy? Meh. I have my days, to be sure. But Manic, I would never have the audacity to ask someone in a public venue to change their rhythm to suit my personal standards. Especially when they've already taken pains to be discreet. To ask for more than that accomodation is just presumptuousness at its zenith.

This reply makes you look much less touchy.

I think we did put ourselves in your shoes and thought that if it had happened to us, we'd have turned it down a little and thought nothing of it by the time we got home. I'm really not getting where the presumption or audacity thing is coming from.

What Question said. I'd have just turned down my volume a little and been done with it. I'm not seeing the big deal, here. It couldn't have possibly inconvenienced you that much, could it?

 

[The Question]

Really? So you have someone who is reading a book in a loud and busy cafe full of TGIFers who decides to take it upon himself to curtail the volume of someone wearing headphones. And there's already music playing over his head. It's a f***ing party zone. Everyone is having a good time. And dude...wants to read his book in peace and quiet.

I have a hard time believing he could concentrate reading his book with this

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playing from speakers over his head. My headphone music was the least of the noise in the room at the time. That's why I was insulted. You wanna read your book? Fine. But go home if you want peace and quiet. Not everyone here is gonna stop breathing so you can read.

I'm genuinely surprised that this concept is not jiving with some of you.

Maybe it was bothering him because A) You were kinda close to him and B) it was actually within his reasonable ability to ask you to turn the music down, unlike the cafe speakers. But, like, again, that doesn't really matter. I really don't understand why this is an issue. I mean, yeah, maybe it's a little weird, but I don't see why this is something to be insulted about. Or even bother remembering after it happened. I just don't understand the anger.

 

[-Arya-]

Stop whining Lightning.

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

This reply makes you look much less touchy.

There was a LOT of venom in my first post because I posted it here literally right after it happened. Like...within moments. I was on-line at the time. So ya'll got the full brunt of what was going on in my head and heart.

What Question said. I'd have just turned down my volume a little and been done with it. I'm not seeing the big deal, here. It couldn't have possibly inconvenienced you that much, could it?

Well yeah. Because the room was loud as it was. As I mentioned, lowering the volume would mean I could now hear the noise around me...which is why I had the earphones in the first place.

I mean come on: we had f***ing Jay-Z blaring overhead, people clinking glasses and talking at the top of their lungs. It was a loud room. I just could not understand his reasoning that lowering my headphone volume would somehow make his personal surroundings any quieter.

I found that presumptuous and weird. If I were him, I'd just accept the fact that I need to read my book somewhere else since it's loud in here.

 

[danoyse]

I commute by bus from NJ to NY every day to work, and there really is nothing more annoying than someone blasting music loud enough to be heard from their headphones.

Granted the bus is different than a coffee shop - there's sort of an unwritten rule that bus rides are quiet time when you commute - but I have to imagine if it was loud enough for someone to hear, they may not have been terribly out of line to ask for it to be turned down.

Headphone noise is definitely one of my commuting pet peeves.

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

Maybe it was bothering him because A) You were kinda close to him and B) it was actually within his reasonable ability to ask you to turn the music down, unlike the cafe speakers. But, like, again, that doesn't really matter. I really don't understand why this is an issue. I mean, yeah, maybe it's a little weird, but I don't see why this is something to be insulted about. Or even bother remembering after it happened. I just don't understand the anger.

You do raise a good point. I was kinda close to him. But trust me, the music overhead was a lot louder. How could he concentrate on reading with all that going on--and how did my headphone volume--of all things--make a real difference? It's like singling out one tree in a forest. I found it positively stupid.

But I'm not angry--really I'm not. I'm cool. Like I told Manic, I posted about it immediately after it happened.

But right now? I'm just amused by some of ya'll's responses, because I know full well that ya'll would've reacted the same damn way I did.

All this "I would've politely turned the volume down and do all I could to accomodate Mr. Reading Rainbow" bulls***...Oh please.

Stop whining Lightning.

You shaddup.

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

I commute by bus from NJ to NY every day to work, and there really is nothing more annoying than someone blasting music loud enough to be heard from their headphones.

Granted the bus is different than a coffee shop - there's sort of an unwritten rule that bus rides are quiet time when you commute - but I have to imagine if it was loud enough for someone to hear, they may not have been terribly out of line to ask for it to be turned down.

Headphone noise is definitely one of my commuting pet peeves.

I also commute by train, so I def feel you on that. That is annoying. And whenever I wear my earphones there I make sure to keep the volume extra low. So it's not like I don't understand proper etiquette. Buses, libraries, etc. you must respect the spaces of others and realize that your noise can travel.

But for the setting I was in yesterday--a social TGIF chill zone--I don't believe my behavior was innappropriate at all. I'm shocked that some of you guys think it was.

 

[danoyse]

I also commute by train, so I def feel you on that. That is annoying. And whenever I wear my earphones there I make sure to keep the volume extra low. So it's not like I don't understand proper etiquette. Buses, libraries, etc. you must respect the spaces of others and realize that your noise can travel.

But for the setting I was in yesterday--a social TGIF chill zone--I don't believe my behavior was innappropriate at all. I'm shocked that some of you guys think it was.

What's even more annoying is that it's always awful music. If it was Springsteen or the Beatles or something maybe it wouldn't drive me crazy, but it's always some dance techno-crap that never ends.

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

What's even more annoying is that it's always awful music. If it was Springsteen or the Beatles or something maybe it wouldn't drive me crazy, but it's always some dance techno-crap that never ends.

Aye.

I put all of that in the same category as playing your music so loud in your ride that others can feel your car's stereo system before they actually see you coming. That's all considered noise pollution...and it's worst in New York. And even though it's part of our city's culture--and you get used to it--it's still hella annoying.

 

[The Question]

You do raise a good point. I was kinda close to him. But trust me, the music overhead was a lot louder. How could he concentrate on reading with all that going on--and how did my headphone volume--of all things--make a real difference? It's like singling out one tree in a forest. I found it positively stupid.

But I'm not angry--really I'm not. I'm cool. Like I told Manic, I posted about it immediately after it happened.

But right now? I'm just amused by some of ya'll's responses, because I know full well that ya'll would've reacted the same damn way I did.

How do you know that?

All this "I would've politely turned the volume down and do all I could to accomodate Mr. Reading Rainbow" bulls***...Oh please.

No one's saying that. What we're saying is that we really wouldn't have been that bothered. 'Cause it's not a big deal.

And what's implausible about being accommodating?

 

[The Question]

I also commute by train, so I def feel you on that. That is annoying. And whenever I wear my earphones there I make sure to keep the volume extra low. So it's not like I don't understand proper etiquette. Buses, libraries, etc. you must respect the spaces of others and realize that your noise can travel.

But for the setting I was in yesterday--a social TGIF chill zone--I don't believe my behavior was innappropriate at all. I'm shocked that some of you guys think it was.

I don't think anyone is saying that your behavior was inappropriate. What we're saying is the fact that you got as bothered as you did or even bothered to think about it afterwards is... strange, to say the least.

 

[danoyse]

Aye.

I put all of that in the same category as playing your music so loud in your ride that others can feel your car's stereo system before they actually see you coming. That's all considered noise pollution...and it's worst in New York. And even though it's part of our culture--and you get used to it--it's still hella annoying.

Oh, that's really fun when you're at the theater. You'd be in the middle of dramatic moment in a play or a song during a musical, and suddenly you're treated to music blasting out of a car stopped at the traffic light outside.

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

And what's implausible about being accommodating?

Nothing. Nothing at all. I was already being accomodating. Thats...that's why I had the earphones on in the first place.