It's pretty common that people turn down the car radio when they're trying to find an address...odd to me that I take out one earbud when I'm trying to really read an email...
I'm currently working in an office surrounded by a bunch of dot.com type companies. The primary one on the floor has just spent the last 2 months "beautifying" the entrance to cubeland on the floor. Putting up large wallpaper-y murals, re-drywalling, painting, and now...a giant glowing head made of neon.
Did they not get the memo that there was a dot crash? Re-arranging deck chairs on the titanic? Or as an office mate said this morning, "the emperor has no head".