Happened to me - trying not to let it happen to my some, but he is a teenager and knows more than me.
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Cooke Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Cheap annoying ipod headphones [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:vgrazi%40gmail.com> com wrote: > Probably the wrong forum for this but traffic is light. > I live in New York City and travel to work by subway. > There is nothing more annoying than the rash of cheap headphones people are using to listen to their ipods, and loud. > It is not unusual to have 2 or 3 people in hearing range playing rap, rock, and disco. > My only recourse is to keep a store of music on my Treo (to which I listen with isolators), but this is not great if I am trying to read or sleep. > Sometimes I muse about bringing a pair or scissors and acting the vigilante, but that is not good citizenship and could get one killed or worse - arrested. > So, I don't think there is much that can be done except to ask folks to preach the word - no one wants to hear your music - buy isolators and turn it down - the eardrums you save may be your own. Take some heart in the knowledge that (according to medical research) they will be getting deafness problems by the time they are in their early 30s if they have volume settings loud enough for you to hear them. :-) -- Tony Cooke http://myweb. <http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/tonyandgillcooke/> tiscali.co.uk/tonyandgillcooke/ A disagreeable task is its own reward. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
