Posted by Harold Hubbard on June 02, 2012 at 04:41:19 from (205.209.16.24):
In Reply to: can you hear me posted by johnald on June 01, 2012 at 19:06:06:
With at least some of you growing up in the 60's and 70's, I am surprised nobody has mentioned LOUD MUSIC.
Cruising down the road, radio cranked up to BROIL, even though it distorted, the least muffler you could get away with, or none at all.
Tiny little bars with wall to wall amplifiers, and too many people shouting to be heard. I remember seeing a guy passed out, leaning up against a four foot high speaker, and thinking " that's gonna make his ears ring in the morning".
Listening with headphones turned up high enough that people in the next room could hear the music.
Radios turned up so you could still hear them over the noise level in whatever noisy workplace you were in.
I was exposed to all this, and actually played in what is now called a garage band, "practicing" in tiny little rooms, with the amps tuned up as though we were in a concert hall.
Add all that racket to my "normal" exposure to tractors, chainsaws, power tools, beating stuff with hammers, and gunfire, it's a wonder my ears didn't fall off.
I did wear ear protection almost from the beginning, for chainsaws, big tractors, construction equipment, but went for years with out it on the "small stuff".
I still hear pretty well, if I am in a quiet room, talking directly to one person, add noise, distance other distractions, and it rapidly goes downhill. I only have ringing, occasionally, but that is more than enough.
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