As some have suggested, maybe being an older person has something to do with it but I cannot concentrate when there's too much noise- and that includes tv's, radios and canned music. I'm very tolerant of music that's being made in my presence, but I suspect that if I needed to think something out I would have to get away from that too.

There are people in my family who automatically switch on the radio when they wake up and then don't even listen to it! Even talk shows! Why bother?? And people who jog along with the 'phones plugging their ears... I understand that in the 'old days'when sewage ran in the streets people would hold posies to their noses. In my opinion, that's what people are doing today, but against noise rather than smell. And we don't even realize it.

Ebbie