What is that noise? My head pops up from my bowl of granola and the Channel 10 morning news. I’m puzzled so I ask my husband. “What’s that dinging noise.”
He hears it, and the search is on. What is causing it? Is it the smoke detector? No. That makes a beeping sound.
The alarm clock? No. We hadn’t set it last night.
T h microwave? No.
The oven timer? No.
Finally, we locate the source. Dick’s cell phone finished charging and is letting us know. I go on with my day.
In this year of 2018 it seems like something is always dinging. Later, after breakfast, the sound of my dryer dinging sends me trotting down the basement to retrieve a sweatshirt that’s been drying. Pulling it over my head, I grab my purse and smartphone and turn it on with a bell-ringing noise. Not much different than a dinga ling sound.
I step into my vehicle and as soon as the key is in the ignition, bells start ringing. The safety belt warning dings and occasionally when I don’t shut a car door tight enough, “the open-door warning” begins chiming. I don’t even get a minute to adapt; the sound starts immediately.
The day continues. My computer ding-dings when I turn it on, and it deedle-dees when I turn it off. The cash registers at the grocery store dings. My daughter calls my cell and my phone doesn’t ring. It dings.
I realize I’m being a typical grumpy old person and remind myself of warning sounds in the past. Loud and annoying beeping was the noise of choice. The old blares of car safety belt warnings blasted you right out of the vehicle.
My old washer and dryer both had end-of-cycle noises that could wake the dead. True, there was never any question that the load of clothes was finished, but was it worth the clamor? My new washer and dryer emit pleasant bell-like tones. Nice, although I can’t hear them if the TV is on.
My alarm clocks of the past woke me up with harsh nasty eee— -eee screeches that made me feel like throwing them against the wall to turn them off.
The good old days aren’t always as great as we remember. I decide to be more appreciative of the softer chimes of today’s electronics.
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