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Daisy the Dog

Daisy the Dog

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So, I’m walking my dog in the early morning. I‘m carrying water in a bottle with a strap, wearing it cross body. It’s very quiet. I turn down this one street and hear a “thump, thump, thump.” I think it’s someone playing music with a bass beat, but whenever I stop, the thumping stops. So, now I’m thinking the person playing the music is watching me and stops the music when I stop.

OK, you know where this is going, right? My blasted water bottle was thumping against the phone in my pocket! 🤦‍♀️

I read way to many thriller novels!
 

I heard Tina Turner the other day singing "Simply the Best" one of my personal favourites. But she is RIP and certainly not in my house or could she be. Woke from a sound sleep.

Turned out I had left the computer on with the sound on mute but Riley stepped across the keyboard and unmuted it. Dam near gave me a heart attack.
 
I was going insane from a clangy type sound in my house. 😱 It was driving me crazy, and it was also a little creepy! I won’t bore you with the things I checked and the time I wasted looking for the source of the sound! 😂

I’d just gotten hearing aids, the volume was up high, and the clangy sound was the change I happened to have in my pocket that was below my auditory perception before the hearing aids! 🤦🏼‍♀️
 
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I was having trouble falling asleep- kind of dozing off, but not really sleeping. I kept hearing this guy yell. I couldn't make out what he was yelling. I heard him again, it was 1AM. Then I heard him, once more, my alarm clock said -1:15 AM. At 1:30, he was yelling again. It dawned me that the yelling guy was my chiming clock in the living room.
BTW. I've been certifiable way before this.
 
Lee said:
I heard Tina Turner the other day singing "Simply the Best" one of my personal favourites. But she is RIP and certainly not in my house or could she be. Woke from a sound sleep.

Turned out I had left the computer on with the sound on mute but Riley stepped across the keyboard and unmuted it. Dam near gave me a heart attack.
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wow, what were the chances... that would have freaked me out too...
 
Once I was driving along and started to hear a sort of rumbling-bumping sound coming from the back of my car. OH NO! Maybe it's just something rolling around in the trunk? I pull into a parking lot and check the trunk. Nothing rolling around.

I start driving again, so far so good. But wait, there it is again! I pull over again and look in the trunk again. Any car tools loose? Nope. I look under the car. Anything dragging? Nope. Start up again. It's OK for a couple of blocks and it starts up again. I'm panicking at that point. Should I keep driving? Should I stop and call for a tow? What to do, what to do.....

Then I realize that I have the radio tuned to a classical station. I have the speakers set for the back seat only. I THINK the radio is turned off but it's actually just turned very low. I turn it up and realize that what I'm hearing that has me in a panic is a long orchestral piece with LOTS of kettle drums.....BOOM-BOOM-BOOMPITY-BOOM-BOOMPITY-BOOM.......playing at intervals.

Ahhhh.
 
A little over 11 years in this house and the acoustics still catch me off guard. It was built in the 1860's (not a typo house is over 150 years old). Foot thick walls, foot thick vigas (support beams) throughout. Often daughter and i can hear each other enough from different rooms to know the other is talking but not well enough to make out what's being said. That's how i know it's not just my aging ears. She has issues with it too.

But the truly disconcerting thing is how sound from TV, computers will get carried to OUTSIDE the house. You see all those vigas run East/West. This means the two bedrooms on North side of house share a set. the kitchen, guest bedroom and bathroom on South side share a set and the central large living room that spans from East to West side of house has an 'isolated' set. Our biggest issue is with TV background sounds.

We're on a rural residential (but including farms) road. We have just under 5 acres of land, nearest neighbors in this valley (Mountains to East and Mesas West) have much more. Sounds carry in the valley. Our house sits quite far from the road but we sometimes hear traffic from Highway 550 that runs thru our village, and vehicles on the County Road. But at night it is fairly quiet. Tho if if its cloudy airplanes can sound like they're going to land ON us.

The TV sits against the South wall of living room maybe 2 ft West of center. Imagine our feelings the first few months when we'd be watching something in the evening and it would sound as if multiple people were standing talking under the Western roof 'overhang' (about 6 ft wide). Look outside--nobody there.

It didn't take us long both being methodical about such things to figure out it was only when there were scenes with lots of background noise and the sound was somehow channeled to seem to come from outside. So now whenever we here any odd noise while watching TV/DVDs first thing we do is mute the sound for a few seconds. Some YT videos can be problematic too as they'll have weird background music or sound effects. But muting the sound for a short time always clarifies the source--especially when it resumes on unmuting.
 
Not judging here but today (7-4-23) my wife put the salt shaker in the fridge o_O. Yes, I've done things like this, shook a packet of sugar for my coffee, then opened the packet and proceeded to pour the sugar into the trash. Seriously though, everything will be fine as soon as you stop laughing :LOL:! Don...
 
My friend was giving me a lift in her car, and she said,
"Can you hear that clutter clutter sound", "Yes I wonder what it is". This went on for a couple of days until she finally took it to her mechanic and asked him if he could work out where the sound was coming from. He took the car for a spin around the block and came back with a smile on his face, "I found the sound, your seat belt was hanging out of the car on the driver's side". She was so embarrassed.
 
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