Gym Memo

May 5, 2008 at 9:28 AM
2 comments

To: The Guy On The Elliptical Machine Next To Me

Date: Yesterday

I admire your determination and focus. You look very purposeful. Bravo!

Just for the record, I have a 20-30% hearing loss across certain frequency ranges. Can't hear conversation, which is annoying. Like you and many others, I like using my iPod as an exercise aid. It is possible that my iPod is slightly louder than other people's iPods, I'll grant you that.

However, I need to say that, given my hearing loss AND the noise from my own raucous iPod tunes ... I should NOT be able to hear the guitar rifts and lyrics from your iPod.

I'm jus sayin' ...

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Comments

Red Pen wrote:
May 5, 2008

The mom in me always worries about people who play their portable music so loud that I can hear it. Not good for the ears. :(

Cate wrote:
May 6, 2008

Sometimes the RAGE that comes over me on planes when I can hear people's music OVER THE ENGINE is... well, very unladylike. I had a prolonged conversation recently with a group of people about what kinds of things squick us out the most... it was interesting to discover that some people are squicked by texture, other people by smell or gross sights, but for some people it's really NOISE. That's me. Smells that make other people gag just kind of waft past me, I can look at images of surgery and gangrenous legs with interest -- but if the person at the table next to me is eating his pho with cow-pulling-foot-out-of-the-mud slurpy savour? well...full body irritation. And don't even get me started on Those Kids in the Library who Don't Seem to Have Any Kleenex!