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.
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.
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Oh, you were comparing them using sound.
No jets or planes going overhead. No cars driving down your street to five miles away. No fans. No air conditioners. No music. No Radio. No TV.
The author thought that people of our day would find the silence nearly disorienting.
The only things you might hear were a water wheel, someone chopping wood, the occasional sound of an animal, that kind of thing.
It definitely made me consider it.
My wife and I went out to buy a new car the other day, and they had music playing in the dealership that just bounced around the big, open space, no baffling materials anywhere,
When we were about to drive away with the new car, the manager came over to thank us for buying a car, and asked if there were any issues we had that we wanted to tell him about. He said next time we came in, he would guarantee the sound level would be lower.
I also mentioned my six year old car that I had bought from the same dealership had internal trim defects in the seat and center console that were not natural wear and tear, but had spontaneously developed.
Without hesitation, he gave me his card, asked me to take pictures of the defects, and email them to him and describing them. He said they would do what they could to remedy them...on a six year old car with 90,000 miles on it.
That seemed like pretty good customer service to me. I was impressed.