On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Jordan<[email protected]> wrote: > I understood that you were being sarcastic, but the audio and visual > stimulation in some of the mass market stores is successful at the > stimulation you speak of for most people.
One day I was in a music store at Tyson's Corner Center in Mclean VA a number of years ago. I was just killing some time while waiting for a bus. There was some of this 'stimulating' music being played rather loudly on the music system in the store, and I began to notice that I was hearing the "F" word repeatedly over the loudspeakers. The "F" word was part of the lyrics of the song being played. I walked out of the store, down the mall concourse a bit, and could still hear the song and the "F" word clearly. I walked back into the store, and looking around, could see that the place was crawling with young kids, teens and pre-teens. As the song was ending, I asked for the manager, got her attention, and asked her what was just playing. She told me, and I did not recognize the group, but told her it was a very inappropriate choice given the presence of all the young folks in the store, which I might add, was their normal crowd. I also noted to her that anyone nearby in the hallway putside the store was also being subjected to the repeating "F" word. She kinda grunted and said "sorry" and that was about it. When I got home I was still upset about it and contacted the mall management, telling them that to be subjecting shoppers walking down the hallway to such language, not to mention the children in the store, was just plain wrong. Mall management said that whatever the store wanted to do within their confines was their business, but they did understand my concerns about subjecting others outside the store to such language. I know. I'm an out-of-date fogey who should mind his own business, but I just couldn't help myself. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
