LOL, I don’t enjoy noisy places at all-I have the tinnitus thing constantly, and when I am in a noisy environment, all sound, conversation, music, the clatter of chairs and everything else just melds into one ball of frustrating noise.
I try to lip read or cock my head to aim my ear towards their voice, but it doesn’t help.
I hate noisy environments now, but if I still drank liquor the way I used to, I might enjoy it, but...I don’t. Drinking takes too much energy now...so I only do it rarely nowadays.
Loud clubs aren’t made for hunters, a drone might get lucky at the end of the night and after spending tons of money and getting sweaty, but who wants to waste an entire evening and night for a slight chance of an exhausted, broke, 2:00 am reward.
I think that very much of this list is illness-related, as well as age-related.
Tinnitus, if you are unfortunate enough to have it, is constant. You mostly overcome it by increasing the volume. I think it may cause the loss of directional location through sound, also.
You sit to put on socks when you used to stand - because you can no longer feel your feet, reach them or trust your balance.
I watched my father’s failing health and eventual death and the mark that it left on me was the desire to age as gracefully as possible. Age is more sudden than we would like to accept, but the correct acceptance of new limitations is, I think, the key to graceful aging.
I keep a decibel meter app on my phone. When we sit down in restaurants and it seems loud, I put it on the table and open it up. My wife is mortified and I make sure to show it to the waitress also.
Nothing is louder than a group of 4 or 5 women out for lunch. They fall somewhere between a vacuum cleaner and a jet engine at 100 feet.
Conversely, you’d be amazed how hard it is to find somewhere truly silent. And if you do, the ringing in your ears gets extra loud.