I must be a magnet for men behaving badly this week, either that, or someone in the room
over me suffers from testosterone poisoning. This guest frequently requests the same room because he likes to be on the highest floor. I always know when he’s back because he uses something to exercise with in his room that makes a duh-da-da-dah dropping sound. At any given hour the sound is annoying, but when he starts exercising late at night or very early in the morning when I’m asleep, I find it rude, inconsiderate and thoughtless. I might understand if he claimed ignorance that his exercise regimen was loud enough to be heard in other rooms. But, after being told several times by the hotel that he was annoying other guests and then to continue doing it out of spite, well that just speaks to an immature and elitist attitude that all too frequently is the result of an
over-indulged ego fostered by corporate perks. Why is it considered politically incorrect to expect consideration from other people today? When did it become acceptable for everyone to make up their own rules? He can use the gym like everyone else. Better yet, ask to be on a floor where no one is under you.
I read with interest today an article in the paper about quiet cars on commuter trains
becoming more and more available. It seems passengers forced to listen to the racket caused by too many people using their cell phones have finally said, “Enough”! No one wants to listen to someone’s one-sided conversation, especially when you’re tired and just want to ride in peace and quiet. That’s how it used to be. Remember? You looked forward to a guaranteed oasis from the stresses of the day by unwinding on the trip. It’s no wonder why attention deficit disorder is increasing. Who can focus on anything when you’re constantly being bombarded with conversations and general noise coming at you from every direction? It’s probably altered our brain waves. The article went on to say that all you hear is “shhh” in these commuter quiet cars. People are working on their laptops or reading and don’t take kindly to people who don’t follow the rules. Sometimes a conductor has to step in. For those people who still require constant stimulation, they continue to provide regular cars where you can all drive each other nuts. The sad thing is the people who need the presence of four other talkers around them to communicate with as they work actually believe they’re in the majority. Guess again. The world does not revolve around you.
Speaking of communications, are you aware that legislation is being passed, or in
consideration of being passed in various states, to allow phone companies to stop servicing land lines? The phone company lobbyists are spreading their money and influence during an election year to convince legislators that if they could just stop servicing those pesky little land lines, saying they could invest more into technologies that customers are demanding. What they don’t admit to is that they've already been investing in new technologies, and that the rest of the population is not demanding anything. They’re happy with their phone service, or else they can’t afford a wireless service with costly bells and whistles. There are currently only about a third of all households in the U.S. that are wireless. You’d have to be unconscious to not realize that of course phone companies want the other two thirds of the population to buy wireless phones because then they’d make even more money by forcing a constant change of phone technology on consumers. And, we’d have even more noisy and intrusive conversations going on around us to contend with. Just think how many more car accidents we can look forward to when the entire culture is wireless. What do they expect rural customers to do, or grandma and grandpa who can’t physically use a cell phone? I wonder how many new models of cell phones come out each month. There is no end in sight, but at some point consumers are going to be in so much debt trying to keep up with technology that they’re going to say, “Enough!”
over me suffers from testosterone poisoning. This guest frequently requests the same room because he likes to be on the highest floor. I always know when he’s back because he uses something to exercise with in his room that makes a duh-da-da-dah dropping sound. At any given hour the sound is annoying, but when he starts exercising late at night or very early in the morning when I’m asleep, I find it rude, inconsiderate and thoughtless. I might understand if he claimed ignorance that his exercise regimen was loud enough to be heard in other rooms. But, after being told several times by the hotel that he was annoying other guests and then to continue doing it out of spite, well that just speaks to an immature and elitist attitude that all too frequently is the result of an
over-indulged ego fostered by corporate perks. Why is it considered politically incorrect to expect consideration from other people today? When did it become acceptable for everyone to make up their own rules? He can use the gym like everyone else. Better yet, ask to be on a floor where no one is under you.
I read with interest today an article in the paper about quiet cars on commuter trains
becoming more and more available. It seems passengers forced to listen to the racket caused by too many people using their cell phones have finally said, “Enough”! No one wants to listen to someone’s one-sided conversation, especially when you’re tired and just want to ride in peace and quiet. That’s how it used to be. Remember? You looked forward to a guaranteed oasis from the stresses of the day by unwinding on the trip. It’s no wonder why attention deficit disorder is increasing. Who can focus on anything when you’re constantly being bombarded with conversations and general noise coming at you from every direction? It’s probably altered our brain waves. The article went on to say that all you hear is “shhh” in these commuter quiet cars. People are working on their laptops or reading and don’t take kindly to people who don’t follow the rules. Sometimes a conductor has to step in. For those people who still require constant stimulation, they continue to provide regular cars where you can all drive each other nuts. The sad thing is the people who need the presence of four other talkers around them to communicate with as they work actually believe they’re in the majority. Guess again. The world does not revolve around you.
Speaking of communications, are you aware that legislation is being passed, or in
consideration of being passed in various states, to allow phone companies to stop servicing land lines? The phone company lobbyists are spreading their money and influence during an election year to convince legislators that if they could just stop servicing those pesky little land lines, saying they could invest more into technologies that customers are demanding. What they don’t admit to is that they've already been investing in new technologies, and that the rest of the population is not demanding anything. They’re happy with their phone service, or else they can’t afford a wireless service with costly bells and whistles. There are currently only about a third of all households in the U.S. that are wireless. You’d have to be unconscious to not realize that of course phone companies want the other two thirds of the population to buy wireless phones because then they’d make even more money by forcing a constant change of phone technology on consumers. And, we’d have even more noisy and intrusive conversations going on around us to contend with. Just think how many more car accidents we can look forward to when the entire culture is wireless. What do they expect rural customers to do, or grandma and grandpa who can’t physically use a cell phone? I wonder how many new models of cell phones come out each month. There is no end in sight, but at some point consumers are going to be in so much debt trying to keep up with technology that they’re going to say, “Enough!”