Rant alert:
I've complained a number of times to the staff at my gym about their choice of background music. Occasionally it's adult-oriented rock radio stations, which is listenable. More often it's teen-oriented pop stations... and I've banged on about current pop music elsewhere on this board so i won't do so here, suffice to say I can barely tolerate it. Every so often they seem to have one of those pre-recorded workout soundtracks with "music" that's basically thump, thump, thump, with lots of sound loops and that ghastly effect of a repeated phrase getting higher and higher in pitch. Fuck I'd like to kill the person who invented that motif.
Anyway, I complained that the music was so awful that it was disturbing my concentration on my workout, and that surely I couldn't be the only one. The guy's response? "You could wear headphones and listen to your own music like many others do."
I held my tongue for fear of losing my temper and saying something I would later regret. What I should have said, had I thought of it, was "If all those other patrons are listening to their own music and drowning out what's on the PA, then they won't mind if you change the station."
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