Enough with the music
in restaurants, shops
Music! I like music and grew up with it. However, now when I go out to eat or to the store, the music is on, piped in by radio.
In some of the restaurants we have been to in the past few weeks, it is so loud we have had to ask them to turn it down so we could hear the waitress when we ordered.
Then many of the customers are talking louder so they can hear each other, so the noise volume just escalates.
In some of the stores, they have their very own radio station with commercials and sales pitches … trying to get us to buy more products while there. It is hard enough to concentrate and navigate the aisles without this added distraction.
Some of the music is horrible and often too loud. Some of us are older and a little hard of hearing, which makes it harder to communicate with all the background noise that does not need to be there.
Is this capitalism at its best? Who is the music for? The customers or the staff? Did the company do a survey and ask the customers if they wanted music? Were they asked what genre of music they wanted to hear?
No one I know was asked. Have we not been dumbed-down enough already?
The other day, I was able to use the bathroom and eat dinner without the cellphone, music or TV and survived to write this. Amazing, huh?
Jon Wakefield
Pahoa
Donald Trump has a
history of using people
It was inevitable that sooner or later Donald Trump and Elon Musk would part ways on bitter terms.
Trump has a habit of using people to his advantage, rather it be personal or financial, and then disregard them like yesterday’s trash.
A perfect example was when Trump stated that Vladimir Putin was brilliant and a good buddy. But today, Trump has stated that Putin is “crazy.”
Now comes Elon Musk, the latest casualty, who was supposed to be the savior of the American people, especially when he pumped $277 million into Trump’s campaign and helped him get reelected as president.
Musk was supposed to trim a trillion dollars of government waste and fraud while spearheading DOGE, but fell way short. Now, he leaves the White House with a black eye, his business in shambles, and a fierce opponent of Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget deficit bill.
I wonder who will be the next victim Trump will use and abuse to get what he wants, then throw ’em out in the cold?
Prentiss Moreno
Hilo
