matadorpoeta
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a few years ago i was in a restaurant, and there was this really annoying music playing, and then i walked into a clothing store, and there was different, even more annoying music playing. and i realized that no matter where i went, there was always music playing. i thought to myself, "do we really need to be entertained while eating? while shopping?"
do the store owners think that if there is a moment's silcence, we'll rush out of the store/restaurant? and so for a couple of years it bugged me that there was music playing everywhere whenever i left the house.
then i saw a car drive by with tv screens behind the front headrests. and i saw commercials for dvd players in minivans because, God forbid, your children should look out the window. then of course they started turning cell phones into televisions, then came the ipod, then i noticed that they installed small flatscreen tvs in all the elevators i ride. then they installed tvs on the bus. last week i stopped to buy gas and found there is now a tv screen that automatically switched from random ads to video entertainmnet once you insert your card into the pump.
yesterday i went to the dentist, and while the lady cleaned my teeth, above me, there was a high-def flatscreen so i could watch extreme skiing.
do the store owners think that if there is a moment's silcence, we'll rush out of the store/restaurant? and so for a couple of years it bugged me that there was music playing everywhere whenever i left the house.
then i saw a car drive by with tv screens behind the front headrests. and i saw commercials for dvd players in minivans because, God forbid, your children should look out the window. then of course they started turning cell phones into televisions, then came the ipod, then i noticed that they installed small flatscreen tvs in all the elevators i ride. then they installed tvs on the bus. last week i stopped to buy gas and found there is now a tv screen that automatically switched from random ads to video entertainmnet once you insert your card into the pump.
yesterday i went to the dentist, and while the lady cleaned my teeth, above me, there was a high-def flatscreen so i could watch extreme skiing.