Do well-intentioned people move your speakers?

my house keeper is a "symetry fanatic", and she use to move my speakers to place them in perfect symetry and toe them in at 45 degrees. I finally had to politely tell her to never touch my audio gear again. any of it.

she's a great housekeeper who stepped over a line.

MY GIRLFRIEND!!! She does not understand that the speaker needs to be in the middle of the room in order to sound the best...

Me:
Sorry but that is where it sounds good...
Her:
Well can't you move it over here...?
Me:
NO...
Her:
Well I pay the bills
Me:
Damn it woman! Why can we do something I want?
Her:
Because it is my house

....well usually she wins, but there is going to be another epic battle sometime in the next couple of weeks, because right now I am auditioning some new speakers and have decided that my old speakers sound best in the new position that I have put them in to accommodate the new speakers...when the audition set goes, I am not going to move my speakers...lets see how it goes over then. Say a prayer!

Ben

I'd consider that type of issue a common problem for many hobbies.

Wanna really tick off a cook? Scrub their well-seasoned cast iron pan with steel wood until shiny. ("Now doesn't that look a whole lot cleaner?!")

Or how about picking up a vinyl record with your fingers on the grooved surface.

Or "helping" a gardening fanatic by pulling out some "ugly weeds."

Or wiping the dust off a car belonging to an auto buff with a dry towel.

The list is probably endless. Be thankful that in your case you can move your speakers back and no permanent damage was inflicted!

Misstl,

If you really want to tick of a cook, use his $300 french knife to open a can. There's a saying in the kitchen "Don't touch my John***, don't touch me knife." I once drug a guy across the kitchen because he used my knife to open a can. I was going to take him outside and pound some sense into him. Another time a threw a prep cook through a door for using my slicing knife and breaking the tip off in a can of tomato paste. BTW - both times the other guy got the boot.