This Happens to Me all the Time

Our local IHOP likes to blast dance music during breakfast.

Very relaxing. ;-)

Awesome! :-D

Lou, your response deserves a page of it's own.

I hope you'll submit it so everyone can enjoy it - on the front page! :-)

It’s true.

Agreed - it's like synesthesia, where the senses get crossed. :-)

Yes, there’s nothing worse than a big party with a dance floor and blasting loud music. You taste the first few sips of your drink, then ......it’s gone.......

I should probably know who they are - but I have to admit, I am clueless. Busted!

OK, would you kindly break it down for nottabot? But Barney style.

Please? :-)

They are all high level mafioso. Infamous for sure.

Ah haah. That would explain it. Of course, I don't know nothing.

Didn't hear anything, didn't see anything. Didn't even THINK anything.

Nothing. Right. Guido? ;-)

Included are Santo Trafficante and Carlos Marcello.

And proceed to act like the anti-social idiot who still has trouble talking to the waiter

*ding ding ding* We have a winner!

Hey, this could actually work. I like it! :-)

I boycott places that blast loud music anyway! I actually complained and the store turned their music down on one occasion. Other times they just act like "deal with it".

I will never return to that IHOP.

There are plenty of other places where I can relax while eating.

Like McDonalds, with screaming kids. :-)

I once about ran out of a Chick-Fil-A because of that. I was wearing ear plugs too. They were screaming THAT loud!

The parents probably didn't even notice. ;-)

Didn't notice the kids screaming, not you leaving. ;-)

No they didn't. I have corrected more children of strangers that I can count. I have also had a few nasty parents try and scold me for it. But it's kind of hard to argue when someone tells you they just saved your kid from running out in the street to be run over. Get yer faces outta yer cellular fones!

Cellular fones? You must have studied fone-etics!

This is the study of how bullsh!t sounds through most cellphones! ;-p

So it is! LOL!

I've been told the 'voice' we hear from cellphones is actually a (good) reproduction of the voice - as opposed to the old copper wire landline system transmitting an actual voice.

The digitization process looks up what sound the words are making and it assembles the transmitted 'voice' from a file. If you've ever heard music over a cell phone, you probably remember the music doesn't sound so good. It's because of this file lookup and digital translation. The music isn't in the translation file so the fidelity is much lower. :-)

"why dont you just meet me in the middle" shut up already i've heard that song like 50 million times, i just wanna get it out of my head!!!

"I hope you dance". OFF A CLIFF AND TAKE THAT SONG WITH YOU! I truly despise it.

All the time