UK: TRAVELER'S JOY PUB IN ESSEX PLAYS SOUND EFFECTS TO COVER UP SOUNDS OF PUB BACKGROUND NOISE

Record ID: 335718

  • Title: UK: TRAVELER'S JOY PUB IN ESSEX PLAYS SOUND EFFECTS TO COVER UP SOUNDS OF PUB BACKGROUND NOISE
  • Date: 6th April 2000
  • Summary: TRAVELER'S JOY, RAYLEIGH, ESSEX, UNITED KINGDOM (APRIL 06, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. MV: PEOPLE AT THE BAR IN THE TRAVELER'S JOY (2 SHOTS) 0.14 2. MV: VARIOUS OF MAN AND WOMAN SITTING AT TABLE TALKING 0.18 3. CU: CLOSE UP OF MAN'S WATCH SHOWING SEVEN PM 0.21 4. SV: MAN TALKING 0.25 5. CU: CLOSE UP OF WATCH SHOWING QUARTER TO NINE 0.28
  • Embargoed: 21st April 2000 13:00
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  • Location: RAYLEIGH, ESSEX, UNITED KINGDOM
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA4U6ZFHD71WQZ397S3FHUNPLYD
  • Story Text: It's a common problem wherever you are in the world,
    how to have one more drink when you should be at home.A pub
    in England's Essex has come up with the answer.

    The Traveler's Joy in Essex believe their phone box is
    the answer to the age old problem of how to stay in a bar
    drinking without anyone knowing exactly where you are.The
    phone box is fitted out with a roof speaker that plays sound
    effects on demand to cover up the noise of the pub.

    Customers using the phone can choose between traffic
    noise, railway station effects even office or supermarket
    background noise, to convince the person on the other end of
    the phone that they are not in a pub, but are elsewhere.The
    excuses are endless, stuck in the office, waiting for a train
    or stuck in a traffic jam.Whatever alibi is chosen the phone
    box will play the appropriate sound effect.Manageress of the
    pub, Bernadette Williams explained that it started as a joke
    but became extremely popular and is now a permanent fixture at
    the pub.

    The phone is mostly used by men avoiding their wives or
    girlfriends but Williams believes that instead of harming
    relationships the idea actually helps.Whether the phone box
    helps or not, if your late home and want another drink the
    sound effect phone box is certainly a useful addition to any
    bar anywhere in the world.


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