The two story 'tunnel' street we used to live in that amplified every single sound!
I have forgotten how annoying certain sounds can be. I used to live in an area that is best described as 'urban concrete.' We lived in a row of converted warehouses. Here there was no grassy nature strip or shrubs, just a few trees we could glimpse in the distance. It's a semi-industrial zone so we were surrounded by all sorts of businesses. A mechanic shop, a printing shop, furniture and coffee machine outlets, architect firms, a chocolate manufacturers, a coffee bean roaster and even a tertiary school where they taught beauty stuff and mechanics. We also had two cafes that fed and watered these groups. One was right next door.
So without realising of course, after we'd moved in, we discovered that this area is in fact a busy trucking strip. Deliveries galore! Day and night! The milk truck delivered to the cafe right next to us, at the ungodly hour of 4am! He left his refrigeration truck idling while he slammed open the steel doors and proceeded to unpack. The foundation of our home shook as we slowly inhaled the diesel fumes that permeated our entire house.
We were also 'blessed' with the deep, rumbling and ridiculously loud noise Harley Davidson Bikes make - I actually get angry and quite agitated when I hear them - and I fantasise about having the power to vanquish these fuckers away. To make things worse, these sounds were amplified in our street because our two-story high building sat in front of another two-story high building, so we essentially formed an amazing tunnel that captured and amplified every irritating sound in the street.
We eventually got sick of it all and moved. We live in a quiet street now with just the occasional motor bike noise but we do get to 'enjoy' the sound of helicopters because, as it turns out, we live in a helicopter flight path. But, we also have a grassy nature strip, so hello lawnmowers, whipper snippers and that oh-so-fucking-irritating leaf blower!!
A rare sight indeed - Mr Fritz with a whipper snipper! He was kindly helping out with some chores on a family visit
So now that we live in a quiet street we get to enjoy these new sounds. I had forgotten how loud and annoying lawnmowers and whipper snippers are, but perhaps the sound I hate even more is the one the bloody leaf blower makes - noise pollution at it's best! Just yesterday I observed this guy across the road blowing leaves from the footpath onto the the road. Really?? And what exactly is the purpose of that? He's done this before. He simply blows shit from one place to another and then goes home. What happens to those leaves dickhead? Well, I'll tell you what! They just get blown around and probably end up right back on the footpath. It hasn't occurred to him to scoop them up and put them in the bin.....NO......lets just spread them around and piss off home.
I find that loud, incessant motor-noise intolerable! It's got to be, by far, the noisiest and laziest gardening equipment ever invented. Pick up a broom people and sweep up the crap and put it in the bin! At least you'll grease your elbows a bit AND tidy up properly. Blowing stuff around and just moving it along doesn't do shit. You simply relocate it, and what exactly is the point of that?
