#108 Volume Level (TV / radio)

Everyone's sense of hearing is a little different. What is too loud for one person can be perfectly acceptable or too quiet for someone else. However, when it comes to electronics that have sound controls, everyone should turn the volume down to a low volume before turning them off.

I recently visited with friends of mine and their 2-year-old daughter was playing with a soft ball. She tossed the ball and it hit the power button on a clock-radio and the radio came on at seemingly full volume. It scared her such that her whole body shook and she started crying because it startled her so badly. Who the hell leaves their clock-radio on the heavy metal station at full blast?!

We have a woman come to our house and clean every couple of weeks. While she's cleaning she turns the TV up really loudly so she can hear it in all parts of the house. However, she doesn't return the volume to a lower level when she leaves, so when we turn the TV on later it's extremely loud. This is horribly inconvenient when my baby's sleeping and I just want to zone out and watch some tv for a while. Instead, the TV wakes up my child and then I can't watch TV because I have to calm a crying baby.

Driving someone else's vehicle is awkward enough - you have to worry about adjusting the seat, mirrors, steering wheel, armrest... so when you turn on the vehicle, the last thing you want is to have the radio blasting your head off, especially if you don't even like their taste in music! Even if they don't leave the radio ON when the vehicle is started, they should still return it to a low volume before turning it OFF as well.