Reply #4: well people with headphones no longer bother me

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in fact they are nice for walking or jogging or doing chores.

It's very hard to find a public place these days without two or three people talking on their accursed cell phones. The loud music though, I learned when I taught intro to business, was a strategy for Hard Rock Cafes (and probably other social places) - make the music too loud for talking, because we don't make money if people sit and chat. This is probably less of a problem in my small-town world because we usually have more "restaurants" than customers.