"Tom G" wrote in message
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As a side note...my wife gets irritated at me when I make the gals/guys
manning the outside ordering points at fast food joints, repeat what they
said and do so by speaking as I would expect them to speak. She says I
sound as if I'm retarded. So be it, but we all don't have her hearing. I
swear she sits in front of the TV with the volume all the way down just to
drive me nuts. Was talking with a fellow employee one time and when she
was done speaking for the first time, I asked her if she had ever worked
at McDonald's. Her answer "Why yes, how did you know".


It's not all you. Very few people know how to properly speak into a
microphone. Biggest problem though is that there seems to be some unwritten
rule that says PA systems in fast food joints and airports have to reproduce
sound as poorly as possible.