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brecklundin · 08-03-2010, 05:10 PM

what is the difference in lingering over coffee or what ever, talking to another person or even sitting alone compared to sitting reading or web browsing? No difference...

Now, OTOH, something like talking on a cell phone will almost always increase ambient noise in an establishment, just sit in a coffee shop for a while and pay attention to the cycling of noise as people move in and out...to my observation the noise increases significantly when people are screaming into their cell phones, and it's even more obnoxious when it's one person. Our local Starbucks has the acoustics of Carnegie Hall and when the right confluence of customers is present it's near to impossible to read or even think quietly. Of course my home town's motto is "...every child left behind..." these days, and it's pretty obvious when out and about.

One of the funniest things I see, sadly on a regular basis, is a group of young adults or teens each sitting around a table with their individual MP3 players going AND talking to each other over the music...then one gets on the cell phone at the same time...it is seriously one of the funniest, from the point of exasperation and disbelief, behaviors I have ever witnessed and like I said I see it on a regular basis from different people...

08-03-2010, 05:10 PM	#21
brecklundin Banned Posts: 1,906 Karma: 15348 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: mine	what is the difference in lingering over coffee or what ever, talking to another person or even sitting alone compared to sitting reading or web browsing? No difference... Now, OTOH, something like talking on a cell phone will almost always increase ambient noise in an establishment, just sit in a coffee shop for a while and pay attention to the cycling of noise as people move in and out...to my observation the noise increases significantly when people are screaming into their cell phones, and it's even more obnoxious when it's one person. Our local Starbucks has the acoustics of Carnegie Hall and when the right confluence of customers is present it's near to impossible to read or even think quietly. Of course my home town's motto is "...every child left behind..." these days, and it's pretty obvious when out and about. One of the funniest things I see, sadly on a regular basis, is a group of young adults or teens each sitting around a table with their individual MP3 players going AND talking to each other over the music...then one gets on the cell phone at the same time...it is seriously one of the funniest, from the point of exasperation and disbelief, behaviors I have ever witnessed and like I said I see it on a regular basis from different people...