Yup, an introvert. I get overwhelmed by noise after a period of time. I find modern life to be stressfully noisy. Music in restaurants is loud enough that it is hard to hear someone talking at the other end of the table. Coffee shop music is now front and center instead of being background. Movies require earplugs to avoid hearing loss. No one seems to think quiet is acceptable.
Wow. I sound like I am 40 years older than I am. Now get off of my lawn! (But walk quietly please)
Oh my goodness, this has been a pet peeve of mine for years. Seriously, if I have to nearly shout in order for DW to hear me across the table, the music is too loud. And this isn't like a bar or nightclub. This is in a casual dining restaurant. It seems to bother me a lot more than it bothers DW. I also have a harder time distinguishing conversation from all the background noise than DW does, even though my hearing tests better than hers.
I have a deep-seated primal fear of loud noises. Apparently this goes back to in utero according to my mother. I Can’t Stand loud motorcycles (in looking at you, dumb-ass Harleys). Sure, they are obnoxious and anti-social and juvenile and dumb, but they also scare me like crazy. My oldest seems to also hate loud noises. She once threw a massive fit and refused to go into a public toilet with me because of the unpredictable and loud flushes and hand dryers. I get it. Whenever possible I try to find a family restroom so at least there is only one toilet and I can, hopefully, control when it flushes. This gives us time to cover our ears. The water-saving toilets rely on a massive sucking action to be effective and that is REALLY loud.
That's really interesting--my oldest son used to have the same reaction when he was younger. We always chalked it up to overstimulus, tied to his Autism.
To contribute my own thing I don't get: Large cell phones. And by "large" I mean anything over 130mm in height. The big screens are hard to reach across, hard to fit in your pocket, more expensive, more battery hungry, and more CPU/RAM hungry. They're a bit easier to read stuff on, but not *that* much better. I loved my Galaxy Light, with its small footprint and large-radius curves (super comfy to hold).
Now I'll rant a bit more: There is exactly one company that makes small phones with decent internals (at least 2GB RAM) for the US market: Sony. And they have only one model in that size. Or at least, they used to. The latest iteration, the Xperia XZ2 Compact ballooned up to 135mm tall, only 3mm less than an iPhone. You'd think that budget phones, like the Moto G6, would have a smaller screen, but no, all the phone manufacturers are caught up in the screen size arms race. Samsung had a Mini version of their flagships up through the Galaxy S4 mini, but cancelled the Galaxy S5 mini and haven't looked back.
Call me picky, but my ideal phone simply doesn't exist. All I want is a phone that works in the US with 2GB+ RAM, a good CPU, a body no larger than 130mm, a headphone jack, a user-replaceable battery, an SD card slot, and an unlocked bootloader (with good ROM support). Such a device apparently doesn't exist.