Do you hate loud typing? Loud eating? Slurping?

[Jane Austin]

42. My noise issue is little kids who never just talk

but yell everything.

I spend a lot of time in the pool area of our YMCA. The kids are incredibly loud there, which I understand because they're having fun, but in the locker rooms they shout and yell everything they say.

I am usually listening to a recorded book or a podcast and I literally can't hear my recording when they are in the locker room.

I wonder if they are so loud because their parents don't respond to them until the decibels have risen a few notches.

When my kids were little, I reminded them in public places that no one except me came there to hear them. We always had a lot of fun together without excessive noise.

Meanwhile, has anybody ever measured the decibel level of public toilets flushing? They are so loud they hurt my ears.