Childishness: Customers Fighting with Each Other

[depechemodefan]

I think Rose should have been politer.

Oh, fights, yeah, I mentioned a fight before at the library. Crazy guy* was sayin stuff to homeless guy and homeless guy's gf and they had a fight with punching and stuff. The cops finally showed up and talked to Crazy guy, because homeless guy and the gf had enough sense to get the hell out of dodge before the cops showed up.

*Crazy guy must have been homeless too, I thought it would be too confusing to have so many "homeless" as a discription for these people.

[Becks]

When I'm stereo shopping, I check out the local rock station.

I wonder if I can take a CD or two. I'd like to hear DJ Laz and the into to Metallica's The God That Failed with the bass kicked up.

Rose: (turning part way to Chris but never making eye contact) Excuse me!
Chris: ... It's okay. I didn't smell anything.

HILARIOUS.

[Primer]

I've done similar, but it was Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in a volume war with a neighboring dorm room's rap.

I've done similar, except I put on MoTab... oh that pissed them off (for those not from Utah, MoTab= Mormon Tabernacle Choir)

The apartment next door would crank up Tejano, with the drunken squalling to go with it. I'd turn my speakers to the wall and crank up either classical, or <gasp!> DISCO for revenge!

[HawaiianShirts]

I was expecting punching and clawing and hair-pulling of a combative nature.

I dunno if I blame the old lady that much. Depending on her hearing and how loud the speaker displays were, it could've been hard for her to hear what you were telling her. Of course, she could've asked if it was possible to move a few steps away if it was really that loud.

Yeah, sorry, IPF. It didn't get violent. Could have, though. Rose did say something when I was ringing her out about wanting to "kill that stereo kid." Might have been an entertaining spectacle if she had gotten violent, but I'm not sure what I would have done.

And Chris really didn't have the speakers up that loud. Most of them were turned down before he pushed the buttons to start them up. And I think Rose's second "startle" reaction was exaggerated anyway because that time it wasn't quiet followed by sudden music. It was music suddenly switching from one speaker set to another.

Some JERK was trying out the car stereos and subwoofers, and the thump thump thump emanated through the entire freaking store. It was insanely loud.

We often get kids and teens coming in to our car audio demo area just to turn on ALL the demo speakers at FULL volume, then run out laughing before anyone can do anything about it. If one of the employees is doing a demo for a customer, no sound check runs for more than 10-15 seconds. That's my store, anyway.

My dad used to (maybe he still does, I haven't ridden with him for quite a while) put on Ride of the Valkyries with the volume way up when we encountered doof-doof music from other cars.

I do that with talk radio. It was really fun when I was delivering pizza to crank up Dr. Laura and pretend to head-bang to her "counseling."

[Moggie]

I used to have neighbors who would fight about "I lived here first so I should be able to turn my music up louder in the backyard" fairly often. It got to be that I'd call the cops pretty much every Friday night around 3am, since I normally worked Saturdays.

Then I made friends with a Bagpipe and Drum corp and offered them room to practice in my backyard.

Oddly enough, I don't hear so much from the neighbors anymore.

[protege]

I'm sure the air horns and brake noises in Micro$haft's Train Sim would be interesting. From personal experience, the horns can, and *will* rattle the windows downstairs... Simply use one of the SD40-2s, and let it rip

[StormCMage]

Why is it always RAP when someone turns the volume all the way up on stereos? I hate it, well not all of it. But I am being forced to listen to it, when I am looking around at the stereos.

if it makes you feel a bit better, around where I am, everyone seems to have those evil speakers and while mostly rap, sometimes I hear techno, punk and pop over those things

just thought I would let you know

as for what happened in the store, I would have been facepalming the whole time, well at least frank knew how to behave, so he gets cookies

[PepperElf]

either that or he's just use to ignoring her

They only like it, because the media told them to like it. I like something, because I like it on my own

scary thing is that's pretty much right. no particular music style in question but i recall someone once asking one of the MTV execs about staying in touch with what music people like. His reply was that "We decide what they like!"

(and bagpipes rock!)

[Tigress]

Back in the 80's, Mom nearly got into a fist fight with a lady over a Cabbage Patch Kid doll. You see, Mom dared to get TWO dolls (because she had TWO kids*), and another lady tried to snatch one from her, calling her selfish for taking two. People...

*Granted, I was either an infant or toddler at the time, and I doubt I would have been permanently scarred if I didn't have a doll like Sissy. But Mom was determined to keep things fair between us, so, there ya go.

Hehe. My grandmother made sure all her granddaughters got a Cabbage Patch doll when I was five or six. But she didn't fight other moms in the store to get them. She MADE ours. Mine is named Sheila and she has blond pigtails, which was the hairstyle I usually sported at the time.

Note the present tense there. Yes, I still have mine.

[Becks]

I do that with talk radio. It was really fun when I was delivering pizza to crank up Dr. Laura and pretend to head-bang to her "counseling."

You're sick.

Then I made friends with a Bagpipe and Drum corp and offered them room to practice in my backyard.

I should go out and make more friends.

[marasbaras]

If you want to show the quality and power of your bass speakers, the 1812 Overture beats all. Just make sure that the orchestra who recorded it used real canons and not timpani.

In the OP, Chris' initial reaction was a bit off. But, the rest was just Rose being a real jerk. Chris was completely in the right.

[Geek King]

My dad used to (maybe he still does, I haven't ridden with him for quite a while) put on Ride of the Valkyries with the volume way up when we encountered doof-doof music from other cars.

I used to keep The Offspring's Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) queued up for the thumpers that seem to cruise the Fairborn area. Got lots of really nasty looks too.

[Antisocial_Worker]

I keep telling this story, but it never gets old.

My brother has never, ever driven a "dad car." It's a cherry-red Pontiac Firebird or nothing. This meant that when his kids were babies, there would be a cherry-red Pontiac Firebird with baby seats in the back cruising the streets.

There would also be appropriate music in the sound systems, as those baby seats were, more often than not, filled with babies.

And so, one day my brother pulled to a light next to someone else in a sports car who looked over at him, revved their engine, and cranked up their gangsta rap. My brother looked over at him in turn, adjusted his sunglasses, rolled down his window, and cranked up his tunes.

It was Barney the Purple Dinosaur singing the "S'Mores Song." The guy in the other car was very confused.

[Shpepper]

I keep telling this story, but it never gets old.

My brother has never, ever driven a "dad car." It's a cherry-red Pontiac Firebird or nothing. This meant that when his kids were babies, there would be a cherry-red Pontiac Firebird with baby seats in the back cruising the streets.

There would also be appropriate music in the sound systems, as those baby seats were, more often than not, filled with babies.

And so, one day my brother pulled to a light next to someone else in a sports car who looked over at him, revved their engine, and cranked up their gangsta rap. My brother looked over at him in turn, adjusted his sunglasses, rolled down his window, and cranked up his tunes.

It was Barney the Purple Dinosaur singing the "S'Mores Song." The guy in the other car was very confused.

Your brother win's this contest. I would have loved to see those faces.

[greensinestro]

This reminds me of the time when Sears would have the old Atari out on display, and kids would fight over having a turn at it. There would be kids there who would hog up the game all day long and not let anyone else play. Then it would turn into a fight and arguing, causing total mayhem.

I can't imagine we've improved much in the past twenty years or so.