THe sound of a ringing telephone? I hate it, it grates on my nerves. It’s horrible. I can’t even stand one ring.
The other thing that bothers me is the sound of an alarm clock going off. Oooh, I HATE that.
Yup. To the point of near insanity.
Well, yes, but it’s more because that means that there’s a person on the other end who I’m going to have to talk to, especially if I want the ringing to stop.
There was a UL once that had Henry Ford or some other wealthy and powerful type trying to get a different ring for his phones but the then-monopoly TPC told him no and that it was supposed to be annoying so you wouldn’t blow it off.
(Now that I have termed it a UL, you folks have until tomorrow night to find the link that proves it true. Don’t you ever get tired of proving me wrong? It’s not like there’s any challenge to it.)
even worse, those damned cell phone rings. Especially the fricken reveille one. I swear, I’ll kill next time I hear that one. You shouldn’t be allowed to play that one at all, especially around ex-military… ugh…
makes me feel bad that I have a cell phone. I have two rings that I can edit, one is Star Wars, something you don’t hear on a cell phone often, and the other is not really a ring, as much as it is a beat. Family gets the beat, girlfriend gets the SW, everyone else gets the stupid long annoying ring that makes me wonder who’s phone is going off. Oh yeah, mine. Excuse me…
There was a commercial not too long ago (Thankfully, I haven’t seen it recently.) that began with an alarm clock going off that sounded exactly like mine. It made my neurons scream and my gave me a sick feeling in my stomach. I wish I remembered what it was selling so I can refrain from ever buying it. The telephone doesn’t bother me at all; however, as it’s usually my girlfriend or one of my friends. I almost look forward to it’s ringing.
No aversion to phones or alarms (except for the part where I have to get up off my butt to do something about either one), but the sound of a dog licking itself drives me freaking crazy! Oh, I hate that. So annoying. Especially when the house is quiet and everyone is trying to sleep and then there’s this lick, lick, lick, lick, pause, lick, lick, lick…
Great, now I’m going to be irritated just thinkign about it. ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!
And what about that blasted Europop song “somebody awnser the phone”
God damn annoying. Even now it makes me what to chuck the TV out a window just for being the instrument that put that in my brain
The telephone ring does bother me, especially when its my roommate’s girlfriend at 7:15 AM, not that I’m still mad about that or anything.
I hate a ringing telephone. If more than
one line rings in the office and nobody
answers, I scream “Pick up the fucking
phone”–the only time I swear there. I
won’t even have a home phone.
I don’t mind phones, but our office fax machine occasionally drives me up the wall. For some reason, it has been programmed to wail loudly when a fax comes in. The first time I heard it, I thought it was the fire alarm. I think the first thing I’ll do after lunch today is figure out how to turn the noise off.
When I was stuck in the blackjack pit at the casino I used to work at, I frequently worked at at table near a bank of video poker machines that would play the most annoying music when someone hit a jackpot (four of a kind or better, I think). Snippets from, “We’re In the Money”, “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” (could never figure the logic on that one) and about three or four other songs that I can’t remember offhand. As the slot floorpeople were none too attentive, it would play continuously for as much as fifteen minutes at a time. I got a lot of pity tokes from players who thought I had to listen to it all day, though.
I thought I was the only one, this is soooooo grating I usually end up screaming at the dog. Because those pauses make you think he is done and you unclinch your teeth and the it starts again.
As for the phone ringing, mine never does so I don’t hear it enough to get annoyed by it.
The ring of a phone doesn’t bother me as long as it’s a REAL ring and not one of those stupid beeping or buzzing tones. But the dog licking drives me nuts. Our dogs have slept outside for the last 15 years because I cannot sleep with them anywhere within earshot.
Pepper, when my phone here at work rings I have to fight down this overwhelming urge to take my hammer out of my desk and bash the thing to pieces.
Fortunately, I can turn it off. But then, my secretary will inevitably come over and say something like “why the hell don’t you answer your phone?”. And I’ll have to turn it back on.
When it rings at home, I’m never excited either, since it’s always a telemarketer. Fortunately, I have the answering machine set to answer in one ring.
My dog does this and she does the long pause starts up again, I yell and then she does this really wet sounding puff of breath thingie. EWWWWWWWW
At home we turn off the ringer and turn down the volume on the answering machine. So most times we don’t even notice the incoming call. We just check the little light on the answering machine to see if it’s blinking every so often. We figure there’s no emergency so great that we have to be on call at all times. Naturally, we turn on the ringer if we’re expecting an important call.
At work, my phone is right on my desk. I just turn the ringer down to a whisper.
Not much to be done about the alarm clock, of course. When you have to get up, you have to get up.
We don’t have a dog. But I do remember that lapping sound from my childhood when my family had a dog. Those descriptions in the other posts brought it right back to me.
Phone rings don’t generally bug me, unless I’m already annoyed. For instance, I’m trying to sleep and the phone rings every 5 minutes. In that case, every ring makes my hair crawl.
The only place ringing really bugs me is at resaurants. If I’m trying to have a nice quiet meal, two things will make me grind my teeth:
- Cell phone rings; turn your fricking phone off in the restaurant! If you’re expecting an important call, you shouldn’t be there. I don’t mind people talking on a cell phone, unless they do the exaggerated Look at me, I’m talking on a cell phone talk, “Hello? Hello, DAVE?!? Heeeyyyyy, yeah it’s good to talk to you. I’m calling from lunch. WHERE?!?!? At such-and-such, of course! Yeah, the food here is good!”
Then you get these stupid arseholes who complain about how loud it is. Well, go outside, moron! - Constant ringing of the restaurant’s phone. I know that they might have to take orders, or what have you, but don’t put any tables right by the phone. Keep the phone in the back, if it’s constantly ringing.
The employees don’t complain if it’s too loud, though. They just speak louder. This doesn’t bother me near as much as the first one, though.
Whew. Good to get that off my chest.
What’s even worse is when the phone sounds like the alarm clock . . . or you wake up thinking the phone is ringing when it’s the alarm clock, or the other way around.
I got immune to two alarm clocks to the point where I have to buy kinds with different beeps each time because I shut the noise off inside . . . or something. That’s the only thing I can think of to explain why I slept through history 12 times senior year.
I’m so immune to alarm clocks that my mom or my sister have to wake me up. Luckily, they don’t mind doing that. And the only time I hear the phone ring is late at night. I can’t hear it during the day. I’m learning to block it out.
I really hate it on movies when the phone rings, and rings, and rings, and rings! GRRRR! It drives me batshit.