Time was that the sounds I heard were pretty predictable. All telephones sounded the same, no matter where they were. The ring was so recognizable that I knew immediately it was the telephone and had the chance to yell “answer the phone.” My alarm clock clanged with an annoying noise that guaranteed I would get up, if only to stop the noise. The door bells I encountered either went “ding dong” or in fancier houses played a set chime melody. The timer we used simply went “ding” when the baking was over. In elementary school there were no bells, only a very intrusive fire alarm sounding once in a while for drills. Car horns all had a similar “honk,” varied only by how long one “lay on the horn.”
But now I am surrounded by a cacophony of noises from my own and other people’s devices. Tomorrow I will introduce you to some of them.
Saved By Words 
Aaargh…the din of devices
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At least you found an alliterative phrase. Thanks.
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My pleasure!
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Progress once sounded like achievements designed to make life easier. Lately, progress just mostly sounds.
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Progress once sounded like achievements designed to make life easier. Lately, progress mostly just sounds.
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You got it.
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I can’t wait! I’ve never been properly introduced to sounds.
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You have missed nothing.
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There’s the modern conversation stopper: “Did you hear something beep?”
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Exactly.
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Sounds can be disturbing to those of us with misophonia, Sadly everyones triggers are different. One of my triggers is clicking pens. It feels like hundreds of scratches on a chalk board to my ears and body.
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I don’t know of that affliction. Have you written about it?
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No
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https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/what-is-misophonia#1
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Thanks for this. My granddaughter has some of this about a few sounds. This helps me understand something that had baffled me.
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It is truly hard to deal with some noises.
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Sounds… they vary. I hate the sound of motorcycles passing by our street. Those riders think they own the road 😦
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We still had a ‘ding-dong’ doorbell, (Until it broke recently) and our phone still ‘rings’.
As for all the rest, I’m with you. 🙂
Best wishes,Pete.
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Thanks.
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I liked the predictable sounds. My husband’s phone makes the most horrible noise when he gets a call. He doesn’t miss the calls, but I always almost jump out my seat.
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Then there are those buzzers they give you at some restaurants while you are waiting for a table. I jump when they go off.
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I know exactly what you mean! I refuse to change our alarm clock. I want to hear that same ring, the one I’ve heard for 42 years.
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Sadly mine gave up the ghost some time back. Fortunately I now wake up when I need to.
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Ah, that sounds nice!
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Cant wait!
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Too many sounds and too many bright glowing lights on everything. As someone who craves quiet and darkness at night, they are both unsettling to me.
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And they are not healthy for the brain I am sure.
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They are not, Elizabeth. And yet they are everywhere.
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You are right, Elizabeth, and the different sounds can be very confusing.
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Especially in our house.
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I think most people like familiarity in their lives, and familiar sounds seem no different.
Off the topic—Perhaps this is just one of those WordPress mysteries, but I can’t like others’ comments on your posts, Elizabeth. (There is no “like” button.) There are a couple of other blogs I follow that are that way, but I do receive notifications when someone else has liked one of my comments on your blog. What am I missing?
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That is weird. I will try to figure out what is going wrong.
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On my view of my site a “reply” button is under each comment. I will see if there is a way to add a “like” button since I never thought of that.
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Sure enough, Pete was able to show me how to add the like button to the comments. It is showing up now I think. I am glad you alerted me to this.
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True 😊
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The last rotary phone was a red color one. I miss those days and the hearty calls..
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And they survived being dropped.
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