Sounds that I hate....

Hi Stephen,

I hope you had a nice week, and have some fun things planned for the weekend!  We have NOTHING planned, except going to visit Pete's mom, and possibly going to a Home and Garden show. Wooooo. But, hey, at least we can RELAX, which is one of my favorite hobbies.  Pete doesn't indulge in relaxation very much, but ME, oh yeah, I gotta have some down time.

Ya know, you and I love a lot of the same sounds-----for instance, every time you open that gorgeous pie hole of yours, the sound that comes out is awesome.  Every Journey song that you ever sang.  A baby giggling.  Ya know what I mean?  There are some sounds that we all love, like "I love you," is a great thing to hear...the ocean...ohhhh how I love to hear the ocean waves...

But, what about sounds that you DON'T like?!

Well, in case it ever entered your sexy brain to ask ME what my least favorite sounds are, I'll tell ya.

#1 - BAG PIPES.  Whomever dreamed up THAT hot mess of an instrument should be shot in the face with a bazooka.  It's like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.  I cannot STAND that noise.

#2 - Steal Guitar.  Well, ya know, growing up with my dad who loved country music, I pretty much had to sit through Hee Haw, and Lawrence Welk, and listen to him play chords on his acoustic guitar to the tunes of Johnny Cash (see below).  Soooo, after many years of the TWANG sound, it just gives me the creeps.  Sometimes, I can deal with a little bit of it, as long as it's NOT a country music song.  But MOST of the time when I hear it, I cringe. (Daddy issue).

#3 - Johnny Cash.  Now, I do respect all that he contributed to music, no doubt he was a rebel and did whatever he felt like doing musically, and that's cool. He transformed country music, and I get that.  But I cannot STAND his voice.  My dad, once again, tried to shove his music down my throat all my damned life, and it drove me bonkers.  I just didn't LIKE country music, but he wanted me to love it. In the mornings, on school days, my dad would wake us up with RING OF FIRE on a 45 record.  Talk about cruel and unusual punishment.

Yeah, picture this....sound asleep, crickets in the background, silence...peacefulness....and then out of nowhere, DAH DA-DA DA-DA DAH DAH DAHHHHHH!!!  Scared the BEJEEZUS out of us. So, to this day, that goddamned song makes me VIOLENT whenever I hear it, I growl, or scream, and put my fingers in my ears and yell LALALALALA as loudly as I can.  Pete made the mistake one time, while we were dating, of opening a greeting card in a Hallmark store that had that damned song play---and I freaked right the hell OUT.  I just cannot stand that song, or that man's voice.

#4 - Someone vomiting.  Nuff said.

#5 - Automated voices on the telephone.  Especially when THEY call ME and tell me to "hold" for a customer service rep.  Nope!!  CLICK!! Sorry!  You ain't got a pulse, you ain't got ME on the line.  I don't like having to press 1 or 2 or whatever the hell either, to get to a human being.

#6 - A dog yelling YIPE YIPE YIPE...you KNOW something is hurting them if that sound happens. And that makes me want to rescue the dog.  And then take him home.  And then kick the ass of whomever or whatever was causing him pain.

#7 - That damned sound on a radio station to "test" for emergencies---you know, that squawking sound that comes around usually at noon, "this is a test, of the emergency broadcast system. This is ONLY a test..." BLAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!  I really hate that noise.

Well, those are some of my LEAST favorite sounds in the universe.  Curious to know what yours are.  But, alas, I may never know. SIGH.

Bye for now, you sexy beast.

Love, Rebecca