If it's too loud, you're too old!

[Marseeya]

OMG!

It's true, it really is!

I'd like a nickel for every time I tell DS to TURN IT DOWN!!!

 

[NMAmy]

I don't know, Marseeya. It's a toss-up between who has their media louder, dd or my 74 yo mother. Between the two of them, it makes for a pretty loud afternoon if my mom's over. DD will have her stereo blasting and if we're watching a movie, my mom will keep turning it up until I just want to go hide in my own, blessedly quiet, room. I think I just need to send dd over to live with Mom.

 

[mickeyboat]

I don't know, Marseeya. It's a toss-up between who has their media louder, dd or my 74 yo mother. Between the two of them, it makes for a pretty loud afternoon if my mom's over. DD will have her stereo blasting and if we're watching a movie, my mom will keep turning it up until I just want to go hide in my own, blessedly quiet, room. I think I just need to send dd over to live with Mom.

I was thinking the same thing. When FIL comes over, he turns the tv up so loud I can barely stand it. Unfortunately, DH is becoming the same way. Oh, the horror!

Denae

 

[Beth76]

I'm with Amy, not at MIL's house! There, if it's too loud, you're too young!! They have the TV on constantly and it's sooooooo loud! And it doesn't help that their living space is one big room. You can't escape the loudness of that stupid TV. Even when my son was sleeping they didn't turn it down.

 

[ducklite]

Earplugs. The foam ones. You forget you have them in.

Anne

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I hope she realizes the damage she's doing to her hearing. I,too, used to listen to my music very loud.
I also worked for 2 1/2 years in a place of business where LOUD was the order of the day. We had an ice cream machine that was extremely loud, 2 slush machines that were louder than the ice cream machine and customers who shouted.
I am discovering now that my hearing is almost completely shot. I have to turn things up or (if DH isn't home)turn on the captions when I'm watching TV because I can't understand what they are saying. I hate the thought of it, but probably within the next six months or so, I'm going to see an audiologist and get a hearing aid. I am too young for this...

TOV

 

[ducklite]

I hope she realizes the damage she's doing to her hearing. I,too, used to listen to my music very loud.
I also worked for 2 1/2 years in a place of business where LOUD was the order of the day. We had an ice cream machine that was extremely loud, 2 slush machines that were louder than the ice cream machine and customers who shouted.
I am discovering now that my hearing is almost completely shot. I have to turn things up or (if DH isn't home)turn on the captions when I'm watching TV because I can't understand what they are saying. I hate the thought of it, but probably within the next six months or so, I'm going to see an audiologist and get a hearing aid. I am too young for this...

TOV

Unfortunately this is true. Even though I've always worn earplugs, I've spent too many hours in too many loud places, and I have mild tinnitus and a 20-30% hearling loss because of it.

Anne

 

[Marseeya]

I forgot about older people turning up the tv! My parents are the same way, but they'll at least turn it down when we come visit.

What gets me with DS is that I actually LIKE his music. I can remember when I was his age wanting it turned up so loud the floors thumped. Now I can't think when he has it turned up so loud.

 

[Marseeya]

Unfortunately this is true. Even though I've always worn earplugs, I've spent too many hours in too many loud places, and I have mild tinnitus and a 20-30% hearling loss because of it.

Anne

Is there anything that can be done for tinnitus? I've noticed a constant mild ringing in my ears, but I think it's from fibromyalgia.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

The only thing I found that works is getting away from the source of your loud sounds permanently. When I worked for Sonic, I would come home EVERY DAY with ringing in my ears that lasted well into the evening and sometimes I would wake up with it in the mornings.

By the time Fall Break came around (Thanksgiving),the ringing had stopped and it hasn't come back since, except for the day when we were caught inside just as the fire drill started.

TOV

 

[RUDisney]

I had to return items that the kids got for Christmas to Abercrombie and Old Navy yesterday. Man! Do I ever hate going into those places! How do you concentrate on what you want to buy when you can't hear yourself think over the LOUD music they play?

Yep... I've decided it, too. I'm old.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I don't know about Old Navy, but at the Abercrombie at the mall where I used to work, you could hear the music coming out of it half way down the corridor. It was so loud that the few times we went in (mostly to buy stuff for my brother) the conversation between us and the salesperson went like this:

Us: WE"RE LOOKING FOR A *item*
SP:WHAAAAAAAAAAT? We've got *xyz* on SALE RIGHT NOW AND *something else blah blah blah*
Us: NO NO NO WE WANT *item*!
SP: *item*?!?!?!?
Us: YES! DO YOU HAVE IT IN SIZE *a*?
SP: WHAAAAAAAAAAAT SIIIIIIZE?
Us: SIZE *A*!!!!
SP: OH! SIZE A! OK..THAT'S RIGHT OVER HEEERE! AND YOU CAN GET *BLAH BLAH BLAH* TO GO WITH IT FOR *SOME PRICE*!!! yAAAY!

I hated going in there.

TOV