monkeysugar

I am a very soft-spoken person. I am not shy by any means, but I feel very uncomfortable and frustrated when I am around people who have extremely loud voices.

I am not refering to people who may raise their voices every now and then, but those who drown out every other conversation in the room and wreck all attempts to concentrate on anything. The type of people who sound like they're shouting all the time.

Am I alone in feeling this way? Does anyone have any suggestions about how to get people to actually quiet down to the point where they are not pissing off everyone within a 100 foot radius?

Obviously, asking them to tone down their voices is an option, but that has not proved itself to be very effective in my experience.