And now, a list of noises that are driving me insane:
1. They ("they" meaning "the incompetent fix-it crew at my place of employ") are fixing or un-fixing something in the room above my office. Whatever the hell they're doing goes "whirrrrrrrrrrr!" for about 10 seconds, followed by strange porpoise-like clicking sounds. There is silence for a few seconds, then someone starts thwacking something made of metal with a hammer. This scenario repeats for three hours.
2. You know the sound that comes from your car's dashboard when you use the turn signal? The tick ... tick ... tick? My car does that all the time now -- just much faster: ticktickticktickticktickticktick -- without any regard for whether the turn signal is actually in use. I'm not taking it to the mechanic because I am not going to pay some forked-tongued Cleveland greasemonkey (I have yet to find a single mechanic in this city who wasn't spawned in Satan's bowels) $200 just for taking a peek inside the dashboard. Instead, I will tickticktickticktick away the three-hour drive to my parents' house and look pathetic until my dad goes out to the garage and makes it all better.
3. I understand the need to keep a clean house, and I also understand that some people clean more than I do, but I do not understand why my upstairs neighbors have to vacuum their living room 6 times a week. I have never seen their vacuum, but by its astonishing volume, I have deduced that it was manufactured during the Truman administration and only works properly when it is 7:30 a.m. on a Saturday or during the last 15 minutes of Law and Order.
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