I was in Walmart the other day and encountered a young mother pushing her shopping cart around with a crying baby in tow. And I mean crying. The little tyke was bawling its ass off and I tried to move away from him and his Mom as fast as I could.
Several aisles away however, I could still hear the little bugger going off. I quickly located the couple of items I was looking for and headed for the exit. Even up at the front of the store near the checkout register, I could still hear the baby going off. I hustled the hell outta there.
On my way driving down to Buzzy’s Country Store, it got me thinking about other annoying sounds or noises that drive me crazy. Seems that whenever folks describe something sounding awful they will often compare it to fingernails on a chalkboard or a cat in heat.
While those two noises don’t make my painful sounds list, here are a couple others that, in addition to babies crying, tend to get on my nerves: T-V laugh tracks, car alarms, rap music, people arguing, kids singing (the 1-800-cars-for-kids jingle comes to mind) and the sounds of cutlery during movie dinner scenes.
I know, you’re questioning the cutlery entry. I can’t explain why but hearing silverware clanging around on dishes in those dinner movie scenes bugs the hell outta me. It doesn’t bother me in real life. However, when I’m watching a movie and trying to listen to the dialogue, I don’t want to hear knives and forks clanging around on the dishes.
Just for the hell of it, I tried Googling “Sounds I hate” and the babies crying was the only one to make this list of the ten most hated sounds (click here.) Ironically enough, the other 9 on the list don’t bother me. Go figure; or maybe that should be – go listen.)
Kenny has a little something to say about this subject:
Painful Sounds
I was in Walmart the other day and encountered a young mother pushing her shopping cart around with a crying baby in tow. And I mean crying. The little tyke was bawling its ass off and I tried to move away from him and his Mom as fast as I could.
Several aisles away however, I could still hear the little bugger going off. I quickly located the couple of items I was looking for and headed for the exit. Even up at the front of the store near the checkout register, I could still hear the baby going off. I hustled the hell outta there.
On my way driving down to Buzzy’s Country Store, it got me thinking about other annoying sounds or noises that drive me crazy. Seems that whenever folks describe something sounding awful they will often compare it to fingernails on a chalkboard or a cat in heat.
While those two noises don’t make my painful sounds list, here are a couple others that, in addition to babies crying, tend to get on my nerves: T-V laugh tracks, car alarms, rap music, people arguing, kids singing (the 1-800-cars-for-kids jingle comes to mind) and the sounds of cutlery during movie dinner scenes.
I know, you’re questioning the cutlery entry. I can’t explain why but hearing silverware clanging around on dishes in those dinner movie scenes bugs the hell outta me. It doesn’t bother me in real life. However, when I’m watching a movie and trying to listen to the dialogue, I don’t want to hear knives and forks clanging around on the dishes.
Just for the hell of it, I tried Googling “Sounds I hate” and the babies crying was the only one to make this list of the ten most hated sounds (click here.) Ironically enough, the other 9 on the list don’t bother me. Go figure; or maybe that should be – go listen.)
Kenny has a little something to say about this subject: