Could it be you are offended because you resemble the article?
I felt the same way as Alex when my wife and I did a 2 week cruise on Viking....It was a Nursing Home Cruise.
I explained to Ken that I don’t like crowds. Or airports. That trying to listen while people are talking loudly over the music aggravates my Generalized Anxiety Disorder. And that having to sit through anything at all by Dire Straits rubs me even wronger than it did in high school. But this year my curiosity got the best of me, and on a crisp November night I rode the Acela to Washington’s Union Station, then took the Red Line to North Bethesda, and at long last, tired and already regretting my Amtrak dinner, trudged toward the twinkling lights of a Canopy by Hilton.
The following morning, at another Hilton five minutes away, I walked into my first US audio show. The global, all-ages vibe of High End Munich was nowhere to be found, nor were the airy digs of its MOC convention center. Under fluorescent lighting, the crowd was overwhelmingly male and distinctly American. During my first 15 minutes at CAF, I spotted at least five pairs of sweatpants, four hearing aids, three yellow-gold Rolex Submariners, two tiger-themed Ed Hardy jackets, and one hairpiece. I was also surprised to find myself on the younger end of the CAF age spectrum. As a fellow audio journalist tartly noted, the Rockville Hilton sported “more canes than women.”
