BY MIKEY MIGO
Earlier this week I was out and about with a loved one. It was getting late and we hadn’t eaten all day. We drive around the mall area and everywhere seems overly packed. We end up going to a TGI Fridays. Yeah, I know… TGI Fridays on a Monday? CRAZY! So we time traveled and were enjoying our quiet meal. Then I notice a situation about twenty feet from me. There was a family, middle age types, sitting at a table complaining to the nice waiter. He then gets his manager and returns. It turns out this whole situation was because the music in the restaurant was too loud. It was so loud that these people needed it rectified and they needed it NOW. The manager tells them they cannot lower the level and that it’s automatic. Due to the music being so loud this family gets up and LEAVES. First off, the music was at a very reasonable level. The person I was with and I could hear each other very clearly and we were under a speaker. We could hear the waiter. We could hear people around us. In fact the atmosphere was very pleasant for a chain restaurant. It’s not like the music was death metal or gangsta rap either. The music was your run of the mill light rock and light R&B stuff. I recall hearing a little Sugar Ray, some Destiny’s Child, and stuff like that. The song these people walked out to was “Even Better Than The Real Thing” by U2. Unless some serious shit goes down, I’m going to always defend U2 but this was hilarious. It just tickles my fancy that a group of adults would be such pussies. They came into this restaurant and expected them to change something that would affect everyone in the building. What did they expect? Have they never eaten in public before? Music is part of what makes a food chain restaurant what it is. I’m fairly certain these franchises send out a team of specialists who go around towns playing shitty music. Once they find an exact spot that sounds good, they build a restaurant around it. Simple as that. I’m pretty sure these people vote republican. It’s just crazy to think someone would shun deep fried green beans just because it came with a side of Eve 6. At least it wasn’t Christmas music…
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