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?

Sneers = sneery

I have Asperger's and am very sensitive to sounds. That would have driven me nuts and I'd have had to put my fingers in my ears. YANBU from my perspective, but then I know I'm not 'normal', and as is very evident from this thread, lots of people would think I were being precious and unreasonable.

Thanks for everyone's input - apart from 1 or 2 who seemed to be projecting other issues on to this situation.

I find the divisiveness of this issue quite interesting. Seems pretty down the middle from what I can see.

It's very British to find something rude and annoying but not to say anything, isn't it? Will try and restrain myself in future!

My hairdresser doesn't like noise and turns off music when his staff put it on. It’s bliss. There is too much noise these days. YANBU.

I think the manager should have said something
it isn't even the 2 conflicting modes of music though that would bother me too - it's the bad manners of playing a video out loud in a public place, whether that's the bus or the salon doesn't matter.

why are so many people incapable of being quiet these days? There was a guy on the bus yesterday who had his text alert on the loudest it could be. He sat at the front of the bus. I was somewhere near the back and also texting - the tone on mine was off. Another guy got on, sat near to me, heard the text tone from the front and tapped me on the shoulder and said "could you turn that down please?"

when I explained it was the guy at the front of the bus, he was really apologetic but I didn't blame him, it did sound like it was right next to us.

NavyandWhite I don’t get the outrage either. The hairdresser is a social place where there is noise, music and chatter going on all the time. Why would the manager say anything about a grandparent showing off their GC talents? This is one bizarre thread.

Bizarre and quite frankly ridiculous. It was vaguely amusing to start of with, but now quite tedious.

I hate going to the hairdressers... all the noise... it's too much. Added to that, someone's kid singing from their phone. This amount of sensory overload would make me very anxious.

But... there is no way I would say anything as this is my problem. I think you were a bit rude, tbh. And yes, YABU.

Having to listen to that woman's dgd would've irritated the shit out of me. A short blast, to get the gist of her voice, fine. But a few minutes? Probably a whole song? No thanks.

My trips to the hairdressers are few, far between and much enjoyed. The nice coffee, chat, music and general atmosphere are all important in that. Salon owners work hard to get that right.

That said, I'm too much of a wuss to say anything. I'd have ground my teeth into my latte, and kept quiet. Like the chicken I am.

I feel for you, OP. I have sensory issues and find everyday life really noisy a lot of the time- have to wear headphones with white noise on noisy buses with babies screeching, toddlers shrieking and teenagers swearing etc etc! Maybe you were a little over sensitive- to others- but you can't help the way you are and maybe other posters could be more sensitive to you?

I feel that you were v tolerant putting up with the audio for so long and were right- if you did so politely- to say something as noisy people often don't realise how loud they are and what distress they can cause others!