A friend of mine did something noteworthy the other day, and forwarded me a copy. He wrote his local eatery with a complaint:
Why does the Bothell, Washington Qdoba have Fox news on the only TV? I would think that offends more people than it pleases. The food is good, but I can't eat in a place with that contemptuous and contemptible garbage on.
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I have objections to most television but really I don't go places that use it. When I do experience it I like talking back as loud as it talks. Especially at commercials.
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Talking back could work, but I was in uniform. Then again, who hasn't seen a bus driver talking loudly to himself?
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I thoroughly dislike the presence of TVs in anything but spotrts bars (which I don't go to, but I can understand them there).
My auto dealership, where I take my car for most service, has a waiting room, but it has a wall-mounted TV that blares away. I don't even know what channel it is, I do not intend to be glued to it. I look forward to bringing a book with me, but the noise distracts from the reading. (The second place I take my car to has its TV blasting away at a daytime SOAP OPERA. Sheesh! I don't even know what's going on or who the characters are. I kind of wonder of the woman behind the counter chooses the channel because she's bored and listening and is following the drama day to day.)
As for the first plce, I can see how they see the TV as a service for those customers who don't want to read the wsiting room's week-old newspapers, but could they turn the volumne down down a little?
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Whenever I had to spend time in service centers, if I were the last person in the lobby, I'd sneak in and turn off the TV, then resume reading. It would usually be a while until someone else would turn it on... Then the process would repeat. :-)
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I was very dismayed some months ago to find that my favorite neighborhood deli/wine shop had installed a big flat panel screen. It says a lot about the quality of the people who work there that they happily muted the volume for me during some Allegedly Important Ball Throwing/Catching Competition. Since then, I am pleased to report that I have only seen the tele turned on a few times, during which everyone in the room had their nose in a newspaper or laptop anyway.
I used to have one of these back when I spent a lot of time in airports. It's not much use in a setting like you described, but awesome for situations where the jonesin' sheeple are unlikely to easily find someone to turn the thing back on.
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