A few years back I ventured into the Apple store in the Manchester Arndale with a few friends. I wonder off towards the back of the store, where I stop by one of the Macs, which is hooked up to a tasty looking speaker system and keyboard. I open up Itunes, and put on a random song, just out of sheer curiosity about how it sounded.
Of course, whichever joker used it previously had left the speakers on full volume, because as I hit play, the shop nearly took off with the bass coming from the subwoofer. The song? Nelly Furtados Maneater.
Que everyone in the shop jumping out of their skin at the sheer noise coming from these speakers. I'll admit, I panicked. Rather than simply hit the pause button, I went to shut down Itunes. Having less than a few minutes experience with Macs before this point, I looked towards the buttons which manipulate the program open. Stupidly, I guessed that Apple OS must have these three buttons in reverse order to those in Windows, so I hit the leftwards one, expecting it to shut Itunes. Unsurprisingly, it didn't, just minimized the program.
Frantically, I searched for the program icon at the thing at the bottom on the desktop so I could bring it back up to close it. No luck in my panic. I turn around to walk away, when one of the shop staff walks over, turns off the music, and proclaims I put it on so loud on purpose. I explained it was an accident, by which point I see my friends and everyone in the store is either laughing at me, or trying to hide it. I'm then promptly told to leave the store, along with being told I'm banned from it!
