the secret life of my neighborhood

Did you ever wonder what goes on at home when you are at work all day?  Do the toys in your child's bedroom animate themselves and cause mischief?  Do the neighbors throw raucous block parties?  Nope.  At home sick today, I can tell you with utter confidence that this is what happens:  there is lots of beeping.  Very loud beeping.  You know, that obnoxious noise that just about every vehicle bigger than a sports car emits when it goes into reverse.  I never knew how much important backing up goes on around here.  But, oh, it is plentiful, and it is loud.  Is there really a need for such insistent announcement of one's intent to go backwards?  Was there some sort of horrible epidemic in deaths by retreat that I didn't hear about?  Has the overall velocity of trucks going in reverse increased in such a way that  removing oneself from the vicinity of one has become increasingly difficult?

I can understand that a driver might not always be able to see everything happening on or about the rear bumper, and that he or she might therefore want to make sure that there is no crushing of the innocents, but really, I think this is a bit much.  All this backing up is happening not on the playgrounds of our schools, not in our living rooms or parks where our little children and pets and other valuable items reside.  No, this reversing of large commercial vehicles is happening, as far as I can tell, right there in the middle of the street where all the other traffic is.  And if you happen to be occupying said street and a big truck is there, too, and it starts moving towards you, I suggest you get out of the way, no matter which direction it is traveling.

Glad to have solved that issue for the day.  I think the sinus medication I'm taking is making me especially brilliant.  Now we can turn off all that infernal beeping and I can get some sleep so that I may get better and return to work tomorrow like the good little worker bee that I am.   If you have any thoughts on how to stop the infernal buzzing of  circular saws, please let me know.

Comments

[Phil]

Very nice. I like a look at the seamy underworld....

[jill]

One word, Lawyers

[Kimberly]

Let's see... Yes. Not applicable. No. ... Maybe? I don't think so. Unsure.

Oh, those were rhetorical questions?

Hope you feel better soon.

[Barry]

If you have any thoughts on how to stop the infernal buzzing of circular saws, please let me know.

No, but I have ideas about leaf blowers.........

[Paul]

Apologies. We had scheduled our contractors to be done with the infernal circular saws by the time you were sick, but they are behind.

But you are the one who chose to live overlooking a dead-end street. ;-)

[nina]

I don't think it was YOUR circular saws. They seemed to be coming from a different direction. But who knows. I did manage to get great quantities of snoozing done anyway!