I spent a week in a country cottage in Yorkshire. I woke up to a clutter-free bedroom and the sounds of birds a chirping every morning. I woke up ready for the day. Clear headed. Every day.
Consider the soundtrack to my life in the form of concurrently running channels.
All merging at my ears ears into one insanity-inducing brain-splitting hellnoise.
Shutting my window just muffles it, and earplugs just muffle the trebly yapping. I wonder if taking a powerdrill to both ears would do the trick.
So to espcape It I decide to go right to the heart of the ‘city’ and to where I work.
Well the morning soundtrack is replaced with the far more tolerable sound of traffic and computers humming, except for [just now as I type] the occasional dick-for-brains shouting and skidding his car. What a MAN he must be! Beeping too! Woa your dick must be huge!
Apart from the soundtrack, work isn’t much of an improvement. I find myself having to deal with all the shit people couldn’t get right and the other shit people didn’t do because of laziness while I was away.
[sub]Channel 1: Stupid dog from next door. 2: evil little dograt from nearby somewhere. 3: Mongrel hound from less nearby. 4: Loud chainsaw activity. 5: Constant hammering from a building site. This soundtrack is almost every day by the way. It’s no wonder I drink[/sub]
I feel your pain, and I suspect that it won’t be too many more decades before a lot of people have some kind of cochlear implant that lets them “turn off” their hearing. I sure do wish I could.
Living most of my life in the the North-West I’ve learned to recognise and avoid the types of places with names like ‘Hull’.
And there isn’t enough lawn-per-square-mile for mowers to be a problem. If there was, maybe the dogs would find something other than barking to do.
I live in what could be called the suburbs (if it wasn’t for the damn NOISE) of Douglas. And I swear the number of dogs being left out in yards is qrowing week by week.
I don’t know about you but having a holiday fills my head with ideas for making life easier to bare. But it soon gets oppressed by “home sweet home” 's routine.
Hi, Lobsang, and please accept my general apology from those of us whose dicks are huge. Our cars are loud and our brains are small, but some of us have small-bit drills with which you may relieve your pain. Borrow them any time after ten o’ clock, because we’re sleeping until then. Also, we like to keep our lawns neat. The rest of the neighbors like it. Good-bye, and it’s good to have a neighbor like you, as long as you keep your end up.
Congratulations on your vacation, and the rest of the world is sorry it can’t last forever. For the sake of the rest of us, please nap, nap, nap as much as you can.
Look… If I need to explain myself for the over-sensetive…
I am not pitting people who for whatever reason have to use chainsaws (every day). I’m not pitting construction-site workers for having to make noise in order to do their job. I’m not pitting dogs for their tendancy to bark when left to their own devices.
What I am pitting is my having to come back to all this noise after a week of peace. I’m also pitting dog-owners who seem not to give a shit that their dogs constantly bark if left outside. I’m pitting people who make needless noise (the car beep-rev-wheelspin-shouters).
And if I called some dogs evil or hounds, or stupid. It’s done in the heat of the moment.
Why apologize? Some dogs are evil–or have been soooo badly trained that it equates to evil. One reason I don’t get a dog–I don’t like the sound of barking. Maybe for some it is so soothing, it lulls them to sleep each noc–to each his own!
It’s the high, shrill yapyapyap that drives me nuts.
I was merely adding more types of noise pollution to your pain. IMO, King mistook my post for yours.
Hey, King -every lawn and yard needs maintenance, but I have neighbors who trim their bushes twice a week–and mow their lawn every other day. Strangely enough, he does not use the resultant grass as a practice green.
The decibels to lawn mowers and weed wackers etc are high–and it IS a nuisance, which is why my town has ordinances limiting the times for such equipment. My neighbor is well within the time frame–it’s his frequency that bugs me. I consider it noise pollution–I like to hear the birds in springtime, don’t you?
having a holiday fills my head with ideas for making life easier to bare
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Thinking of joining a nudist colony to get right away?
that made me smile–no noisy weed wackers there! Lobsang
1: Automatic coffee pot just finishing up 2: Morning swimmer in the pool 3: happy little bird singing amids the cherry blossoms just outside my window 4: the fish tank in the living room
Lotsa water in my morning, I guess. Been sweltering through high 70s all day with accursed sunshine nearly everywhere. Probably won’t see rain for a couple more months when the afternoon monsoons bring in the thunderstorms.
You’re welcome to swing by if you find yourself near Colorado. We can grab beers and lonely wimmin who shun long term commitments in the pub down the street.
