Writer's Block: Pet Peeve

[fajrdrako]

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Three things:

• Someone telling me to do something I don't want to do.
  
• A baby crying.
  
• A television I don't want to listen to.

Comments

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

Several things:
* People carrying on a conversation when I'm trying to listen hard to musicians playing (it's so RUDE as well).
* Constant flipping of pages during a meeting -- one man I knew (whom I had to sit beside) would never stop flipping the pages in his binder -- drove me crazy
* frequent and stupid camera-clicking during a performance (during quiet or intense moments, or to the point where you just want to say "Haven't you got the damned picture yet?") It's unnecessary and unprofessional, because a photographer can be effectively inaudible if he/she is aware of what's happening, shoots more during loud passages, and generally recognizes the performance should come first. During the staged reading of _Vox Lumina_ a few weeks ago, there was an (NAC?) photographer who just wouldn't stop shooting, even during the quietest and most intense parts of the production. Why couldn't they have got their shots during one of the rehearsals?
* any noise that I don't want to hear and that I can't tune out because it's irregular and annoying -- particularly if I'm trying to listen to something else.

When we went to the store yesterday, a very loud plane roared low over the shopping centre. Looking at it, it was obvious it was military, not commercial (the tail, for example, was very different). It really brought home how dreadful it must have been for the inhabitants of Goose Bay in Labrador when they had those constant military test flights right over their quiet community. No wonder they complained.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Some noises are objectionable not just by their nature but their volume. Ears are sensitive creatures. Yesterday morning we had been told that the street-sweepers would be cleaning our streets. I woke to an incredibly loud noise of machinery - I thought it was huge trucks, perhaps a fleet of huge trucks, and looked out my window. No, it was one man with a modestly-sized box strapped to his back, and a hose. But the nose it made was incredible.

Ditto for airplanes - much nicer to be inside one, where the noise isn't so bad.