To have complained about someone's audio message playing in the hairdressers?

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Went to the hairdressers this pm, a not very common visit, but looking forward to a bit of pampering, an afternoon away from the office.
3 clients - including me - in the salon and, as usual, a bit of chat and the salon playing music, reasonable volume.
Client starts playing an audio message on her phone from her grand-daughter with said gd singing. Actually quite a good voice, but played quite loudly - and of course, the salon music still playing too.
So now I am listening to both musical tracks, hairdryer next to me (other client) buzzing and blowing and people talking.
Sensory overload - but thought that the audio message would just be a snatch - to demonstrate to her stylist how good a voice the gd had, but NO the singing carried on for quite a time - several minutes!!
By now, I am feeling stressed and quite annoyed as I think it is rude to share that kind of thing without checking whether other people want to hear it!
When my stylist takes me to the basin, I say - loud enough for all of us in the hairdressers to hear- "sorry, I can't cope with both Music tracks at the same time!"
To be fair, the phone audio stopped almost immediately but no-one said anything, apart from my stylist who said, semi-jokingly, "don't know which one to listen to?"
Anyway, everyone then carries on but was I being super-sensitive or would others find this annoying and difficult?

I have a problem with noises ( and i have a problem with my hearing too) and this would get too me, but i would never have said anything.
It's ok to be annoyed by it, but the way you said it was rude.
You said it loudly so other people would hear.
Most likely embarrassed this woman who was only showing off her granddaughter singing.

It's pretty petty and intolerant of you tbh.
My mum lives on the other side of the world, and is undergoing treatment for bowel cancer which means she us currently unable to come and visit her first grandchild. I regularly send her little videos of him doing something new / interesting and they absolutely make her day. She'd be crushed if some special snowflake complained about her watching any of the clips - especially when you were at the hairdresser's. It's noisy. It's not got a beautiful ambience. I would understand if you were at the cinema / theatre etc.

So so petty.

I would have found it annoying. But I'll tolerate it for a few minutes because y'know, it's not going to kill me and someone else is getting joy from it.

Maybe friends of the family would also like to see it?
My hairdressers shows me little things that are non hair related and i'm interested...
Customers always used to show me things their grandkids/kids had done so no, other people can show interest

I am an intolerant cow and would have hated this. However, I wouldn't have said anything.

As for this,

Maybe I have ASD or maybe it's because I'm a musician ...

or maybe it's because I'm a musician ...

I think this quote says a lot about you actually.

Why does her momentary pleasure outweigh everything else? A brief snatch would have been tolerable, but not several minutes worth. Why is her feeling good more important than OP being made to feel uncomfortable because of her actions?

Because noise is everywhere. This poor women was not harming anyone. She was not in a silent zone. If the OP requires silence then she needs to make sure she is only in enviroments that are quiet or wear ear defenders.
To make somebody feel shit for doing a perfectly acceptable thing is rubbish and entitled.

If I had sensory overload issues (or was a "musician") then a hairdresser's or beauty salon is literally the last place I'd go.

Get someone to come to your home.

Sorry OP.....mabe I have ASD.... What's this about then?

FFS. Let me try and quote again. Maybe I have ASD

At my previous hair appointment, the salon manager was trying to learn a new language from tapes. It would sound the words and he repeated them over and over - the duration of my entire appointment 😫😫

YANBU at all- several minutes! It would have given me a headache I hate listening to two music tracks at the same time.

Skiver! 😵

What the granny should've done, was ask the salon owner to turn the music off, and then play grandchild's song at full volume and length, so that everyone could properly appreciate it.

Btw - the granddaughter was not a child - more like late teens/early twenties, judging by the voice. Not sure that makes any difference ....

Oh, and it would have been difficult to say anything without everyone overhearing - it's just a small salon. Some posters seem to think I snarled it with a sneer on my face. Actually, it was a fairly lighthearted comment (but with a serious intent) hoping that either the salon would turn off their music so that we could hear the audio on its own or that the gm would stop the CD playing. I didn't care which.

Meh its done. You embarressed the women and probably created an uncomfortable atmosphere. As you said the stylist tried to make a lighthearted comment afterwards. Awkward.

The salon staff were probably delighted that you said something where they couldn't for fear of upsetting their client.

Seriously nobody wants to sit through a full recording of someone else's kid singing. 15-20 seconds, yes, a whole song, no.

It wasn't uncomfortable at all actually. And I'm the special snowflake?!

I'll remember from now on that any recording that I'm proud of can be played to an unwilling audience in an already noisy public place.

Can you address the ASD comment please OP.

Can you address the ASD comment please OP.

And the musician one.

It wasnt uncomfortable for YOU.
The fact the stylist tried to make light if it and nobody mentioned it is an indication that maybe they did feel awkward.

Yes OP you play your music then see how good you feel when an arsehole makes rude comments and embaress you.

Oh and you are correct OP it was public space not and ardner space

See if you can find a salon run by Trappist monks. They don't use a hairdryer either, just fan your hair dry. Takes a while, but at least you'd have pure silence.

Good grief.

Izzy
You are (deliberately I suspect) missing the point altogether. I absolutely do NOT "play my music" to people who have not made it plain they want to listen to it and NEVER at the same time as other music is already being played.

No you weren't being unreasonable. I have hearing sensitivity and this would have done my head in even without the other music playing in the background, music played back on a phone is horrible and tinny anyway.

It depends on the salon.

My Mum has been going to our local salon, since it opened, she died last year. I and my DDs all go to the same one. We've all been a few of the Staffs first regular customers. There's been births/deaths/marriages that we've all shared in, some of us do care about the people we encounter year after year. So sharing something like that is perfectly valid.

My youngest DD is bothered by noise, she has a few types of SN, so she always has earphones in.

You do occasionally get someone like yourself that just brings down the whole atmosphere.

It's beginning to sound like Izzy was there, she seems to have inside info about who was uncomfortable/awkward.