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> A couple of days ago, I was stopped at a traffic light, and a guy playing loud music pulled up next to me. However.....
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> ....he WASN'T PLAYING RAP!!!!! Nope, he was playing some honest-to-goodness rock music, complete with wailing electric guitar and lyrics that were sung rather than shouted. Man, I just about rejoiced. Right there. Right on the spot. In my car.

I would too. In fact, I would have rolled down my window and yelled "Rock on, dude!"

Like you, and probably like most of us, I *hate* ghetto-blasting vehicles. One day, in the parking lot of Wal-Mart, I was walking to my car from the store...there was a car idling in the no-parking zone in front of the store from which a steady, 6.0 Richter thump was emanating. My car was parked halfway from the store to the highway, and by the time I got there, I could STILL feel the vibrations from that vehicle.

Another time, the offending car was parked very close to mine. I passed a woman going the opposite direction as I neared my vehicle, and I commented "Someone sure is loud, aren't they?" She nodded agreement, obviously sharing my discomfort with the situation.

I'm not against hip-hop music. I like it myself, and often turn up my own stereo to take advantage of a good beat. But those sound systems that are designed to cause minor localized earthquakes get on my nerves.

-Trunks (I'll still take a stereo blasting rock over one blasting rap any day...)