Radio Silence. Please.

This was going to be a part of my next sticky-notes post, but I'm riled up enough about it to put up a separate post.

Let's call it Mobil's other pollution problem.

My newest pet peeve is the faux radio stations that "broadcast" over those cheap, tinny speakers at the GAS PUMP. They are set way too loud for the transistor-quality they put out and they go back and forth between the overly cheery advertising bits for their crappy coffee and two-for-a-dollar hot dogs, and really bad pop music. This morning it was "We Built This City on Rock and Roll" which was terrible when it first came out, was thoroughly overplayed, and now is the stuff of brain-invading nightmares. Who needs that? Nobody. I'd much rather listen to the segment of NPR that was running when I pulled into the place. But even though I turned up the volume on my radio and opened my windows before moving to the gas pump, I still could not hear what I wanted to hear. Frankly, I'd rather listen to the traffic going by. No matter if it's my morning or evening commute, I'm likely tired, stressed, and I'm pulling into the gas station at the last possible moment.  For what I'm paying for gas these days, I don't want to also feel like I'm paying to be assaulted with this noise pollution.

I wonder if the advertising industry still considers something successful when it is annoying as hell to consumers. 

I'm afraid of what the answer to that might be so I am now on a mission to avoid these gas stations whenever possible and ask you to do the same.