Thread: Super loud automobile sound systems and the urge to kill

I have the widest musical tastes of anyone I know (not the best, just really, really, broad.) I'll be listening to Opera one day, classical, jazz, classic rock, ska, "alternative" (whatever the F that means anymore)harcore or punk, depending on the day.

When I listen to some of it (Ride of the Valkeries, or Dropkick Murphys come to mind), I tend to listen kind of loud. Not stupidly ear splittingly loud, but pretty loud. If my windows are down and we are at a stop light, I tend to turn it down...as I don't care so much if you can hear it, but it shouldn't be overwhelming to another person. A lot like the way I am when I smoke a cigar. Yeah, you'll be able to smell it...you live in a city...you do not have the right to a smell free zone...BUT..., if I note it is blowing right in your face, I'll do everything I can to be more polite and respectful about it (imagine that!)

Anyway, last night onthe way home (I drive through a decidedly urban neighborhood when I take this route), I was lsitening to the new Dropkick Murphys CD. A song I like was on, there was very little traffic on the road, the sun was out, the windows and sunroof were open, and the volume was up. A tinted out Ninteen Eighty-Rust toyota pulled up behind me at a light, and their bass drowned out my music. I had my volume up tot he point where I would have turned it down out of politeness had a car pulled up next to me, or pedestrians been on the street around me, and I could CLEARLY hear/feel his music to the point where mine was muddled. Really? Why? You think your loud stereo in a car worth less than my shirt is somehow impressive? Put the cost of an amp into a Maaco paint job, your bass will still be loud enough to crach the earth's crust, and perhpas you won't look like QUITE as big a jackass.

An RPG would have come in handy.

Bumper sticker sighted on my latest road trip:

IF I WANTED TO HEAR THE CRAP COMING OUT OF YOUR SPEAKERS, I'D BE SITTING IN YOUR CAR.

(This car's other bumper sticker read: WHY AM I THE ONLY PERSON ON THE PLANET WHO KNOWS HOW TO DRIVE? So I figured the owner was, like many of us, just a wee bit stressed out by modern life. This wasn't in a city, by the way, but in small-town southern Illinois.)

~Rich

My favorite bumper sticker, "Keep Honking, I'm Reloading."

Originally Posted by NYCshaver

They're about as annoying as Motorcycles with no mufflers.

guilty as charged.

Cases of chronic noise out side the home excepted, these are small things gentleman. I suspect your day will not be made any brighter by getting in a bad mood about it, but maybe it will be if you think about all the silly things you have done because you thought it made you look cool and have a bit of a laugh about it.

one of my team leaders at work told me the other day 'no matter what happens you're still bloody laughing' It's a superb position to take in life, I think. I don't have the energy to be in a bad mood for long.