Here are the top ten sounds I’ve grown to dislike, especially since all they will do is increase over time:
- Chain Saws
- Lawn Mowers
- Heavy Equipment Backup Beeping
- Trucks, motorcycles, and other motorized vehicles
- Fire Whistles and Sirens of any sort
- Airplanes, Jets, and Helicopters (especially during the night!)
- Neighborhood dogs barking
- Television background noise
- Women singing on my favorite radio station
- Fireworks exploding
- Water trickling down a brook
- Birds singing (crows are my favorite!)
- Horses chewing grain
- Crickets
- Frogs
- Chickens (including roosters crowing!)
- Cats purring
- Leaves being rustled by the wind
- Wood crackling and snapping when burning
- Rain
The sounds I’ve grown to detest are not to be compared with locations. They’ve developed over time. It’s all about how often they’re heard. As a child, I rarely heard any annoying sounds. It was quiet almost all of the time.
Decades passed. The population increased. Houses crop up fast and have taken over all the beautiful places. I feel like I might be the only one who actually has discovered a highly enjoyable aspect of higher fuel prices→ the amount of local traffic has decreased noticeably!
All throughout my life, I’ve either taken long solitary rides on horseback in the woods and fields or I’ve explored the back roads using my bicycle.¹ Forget horseback riding anymore with all the maniacs on the road! Yesterday, a kid driving about 60 mph (on a 25-30 mph road) almost hit me while I was enjoying a leisurely bike ride. Getting killed isn’t what disturbs me. It’s getting hit and being critically injured that scares me.
¹Those who bicycle ride in spandex clothing wearing helmets never display any friendly greetings towards those who don’t. When I pass by another bicyclist in dressed in ordinary attire, that’s when I can expect he will look at me, smile, and say, “Hello.” On the weekends, the spandex crowd abounds. During the weekdays, the folks seen are much more ‘down-to-earth’.
You can probably guess I’m not a spandex/helmet kind of gal. I’d rather feel the wind blowing through my hair before my skull gets cracked open than to skip the thrill of wind for the sake of ‘safety’. If I had to wear a helmet for any kind of riding, it would be constantly distracting my attention from whatever I’m focused on. And yes, I also hate to wear a seat belt (but I’ll do so anyhow because it’s ‘the law’)!
