I have a low tolerance for irritating noises when I’m trying to work. Seems to getting worse as I get older
How can you possibly hear that? I have fairly good hearing and I would have to be within at most 3ft of someone to hear that. I guess I might tune it out subconsciously, but as long as someone eats with their mouth closed, there’s no way you could hear this without sitting on their lap.
I’ve only read the last few posts so far, so maybe I’m missing an important detail, but I can’t imagine what.
Important detail: people are slobby, un-self-ware assholes, who often do chew with their mouths open, or otherwise somehow manage to chew in an obnoxiously loud manner.
I have depression and anxiety, along with an unusual sensitivity to sound. Never thought to connect them before. Eating noises, phones ringing, obnoxious laughter, whispering, and ticking clocks are some examples. Also- and I am not kidding- Michael Bolton. One of his songs was playing at the grocery store and I had to rush and find a spot where the sound didn’t reach.
I have amazing hearing. And I think you’re fixating intensely on something that’s not terribly relevant to the situation. If you think I’m lying or exaggerating, then say so. If not, then accept my point of view as it is. The end.
Kal–it’s so hilarious that I hate Michael Bolton (almost) as much as you do! But thankfully I never hear him anymore. My mom used to listen to him on a daily basis after a rough divorce and I guess it really got her through… kinda had the opposite effect on me, though.
Oh, fucking great.
After 2.5 months of being on the highest, least populated and quietest floor of the firm, now that they’re fililng up, I get a new cube neighbor.
Guess what? She plays a radio at just that volume that drives me freaking nuts – low enough not to be music or talk but not loud enough to be distinguishably either. Aaaaarrrrrrggggggghhhhhhh!!!
What the fuck did I do?
I wasn’t implying that your statement was a lie, although you probably won’t like the thought that did occur to me either. If a sound annoys me, all I need to hear is the tiniest, faintest bit of it and my mind fills in the rest so it FEELS like it is coming through in 7.2 Dolby surround sound. If you have hearing that is well above the human average, that’s great. Well . . . both a blessing and a curse I suppose.
I had that problem at a job once. Asked my boss to talk to theirs and nothing was done.
So I bought an FM transmitter and modified it to boost the power. I tuned it to the station they listened to and shut them down completely.
Peri-menopause did this to me for a bit of time. Sound and certain motions, like people absently kicking the back of a chair or fidgeting. GAH. Are you at about that age (or I should probably ask if you’re even a woman…giggle!).
I also noticed similar occasional symptoms like that when I was younger, around the time of “Charlie’s” visit.