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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
That's what she was trying to do, but found it difficult with loud music in a place where it is supposedly not allowed to be played.
So she tried to rectify it, by making a request. The person who had the music turned up, turned it down. All would have (and should have) been perfect at that point.
But then, someone who doesn't want HER to take a chill pill or enjoy the journey, chose to make things difficult on purpose.
Perhaps it wouldn't bother you if I had a blow-horn in front of your house, facing your house, while you were trying to eat dinner, and sang off-key Frank Sinatra songs with the wrong words, just because I can.
But it would probably bother other people. So I try to sing on key, for them. The guy in the pool who made a fuss about the music was wrong. He can be wrong in his own home. He is not entitled to be wrong about personal music at the pools.
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The difference in how we, the people of The Villages, handle situations like this is largely geographic. The ones from the East Coast of the U.S. directly speak to the offender, who if he/she is from that part of the world is likely to speak back and likely to say something else that makes the situation no better, and possibly worse. The folks from the middle part of the country do not confront the offender. They either stop going, or move to another pool, because their mothers taught them to hush and not tell other people how to act.
Neither group is really right or wrong. Some people, I will say a lot of people are losing their hearing and come to the pools without their hearers so they aren't offended, the sound is a soft sound to them. Some people enjoy it. Some people have hyperacusis and loud sounds affect them and make them irritable.
I say. Merry Christmas. We have the vaccine that is 94% EFFECTIVE that will soon be available to all of us over 65. That means in essence the Pandemic will be over and we don't have to listen to people saying it is a conspiracy from the Chinese and that we are a bunch of paranoid stupid old people who probably are gonna die soon anyway.
Merry Christmas to you and yours. I hope you have something yummy to eat today and someone to share it with. xoxoxo