Saturday, June 28, 2003
NOISE!!!! It is really getting to me. Have you ever stopped and noticed just how noisy things are now? First, you have those soon-to-be-deaf cretins in their cars with the loose body panels, big amps, and bigger speakers. If you're trying to impress someone with those god awful annoying thumps, at least do it right so your car doesn't sound like a kazoo as it vibrates down the road. And could you please turn it down when you get caught by a light? The rest of us really don't want to listen to your crap and definitely aren't impressed by the fact that you can buy a bigger amp that the next guy.
Being a little deaf myself and suffering from constant tinnitus, I wonder if they really comprehend what their hearing will be like in a couple of years -- it doesn't heal my friends.
Next door there's a band, at least they call themselves that. If it's not the band making really loud lousy music, it's their stereos playing really loud lousy music. However, even if the London Philharmonic was next door, I'd like them to be quiet.
Now there are those 18 feet high, 8 ton, dually wheeled, diesel powered pickup with exhaust pipes the size of garbage cans. It's bad enough you're snarfing down fuel at around 9 mpg, but do you have to burn out my eardrums as well? Which brings me to motorcycles. Have you ever been caught behind one of those idiots with the open pipes? The noise is still annoying even when they're a mile ahead. And how about tuning your bike so it can idle? That way you don't have to keep goosing it at a stop light. And you actually wonder why people dislike motorcycle riders so much -- sheesh....
Airplanes and helicopters zooming overhead; motorcycles and glass-packed V-8s along the drive; lawn mowers, leaf blowers, chain saws, and power washers next door; fire trucks and ambulances in the next block; dogs barking, cats squalling; garbage trucks roaring at 7am; ice cream trucks with their really annoying tunes; and in the midst of all that the phone rings with some telemarketer trying to sell you more crap you don't need.
Every once in a while, maybe once a year; you might, just might mind you, be lucky enough to hear silence. There's this magical moment in time when everything just shuts up for a minute. It's happened once while taking my walk in the afternoon a few months ago and again a couple of years during a jog.
For some reason everything is quiet at the same time -- no cars drive by, no planes are flying, no kids are yelling, no stereos are blaring, not even a bird is chirping -- the bit of time won't be long, maybe a few seconds only. But how magical it seems. Like the universe is taking time-out and all is right with the world. How nice it would be if they came more often and lasted lots longer.
2fers: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/noise/resources/resources.html and http://www.hzemall.com/
Being a little deaf myself and suffering from constant tinnitus, I wonder if they really comprehend what their hearing will be like in a couple of years -- it doesn't heal my friends.
Next door there's a band, at least they call themselves that. If it's not the band making really loud lousy music, it's their stereos playing really loud lousy music. However, even if the London Philharmonic was next door, I'd like them to be quiet.
Now there are those 18 feet high, 8 ton, dually wheeled, diesel powered pickup with exhaust pipes the size of garbage cans. It's bad enough you're snarfing down fuel at around 9 mpg, but do you have to burn out my eardrums as well? Which brings me to motorcycles. Have you ever been caught behind one of those idiots with the open pipes? The noise is still annoying even when they're a mile ahead. And how about tuning your bike so it can idle? That way you don't have to keep goosing it at a stop light. And you actually wonder why people dislike motorcycle riders so much -- sheesh....
Airplanes and helicopters zooming overhead; motorcycles and glass-packed V-8s along the drive; lawn mowers, leaf blowers, chain saws, and power washers next door; fire trucks and ambulances in the next block; dogs barking, cats squalling; garbage trucks roaring at 7am; ice cream trucks with their really annoying tunes; and in the midst of all that the phone rings with some telemarketer trying to sell you more crap you don't need.
Every once in a while, maybe once a year; you might, just might mind you, be lucky enough to hear silence. There's this magical moment in time when everything just shuts up for a minute. It's happened once while taking my walk in the afternoon a few months ago and again a couple of years during a jog.
For some reason everything is quiet at the same time -- no cars drive by, no planes are flying, no kids are yelling, no stereos are blaring, not even a bird is chirping -- the bit of time won't be long, maybe a few seconds only. But how magical it seems. Like the universe is taking time-out and all is right with the world. How nice it would be if they came more often and lasted lots longer.
2fers: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/noise/resources/resources.html and http://www.hzemall.com/
