I have another funny Sunday noise story.
My mom was one of the first lady lawyers in our local area and she did a lot of civil and contract work, no criminal, no personal injury.
She had one case that really upset me personally, and nothing I could do about it.
She shut down the local dragstrip!
We had a little drag strip about 30 miles north of us in farm country, near a little town named Elephant PA.
Well on Sunday afternoons the noise level of course was amazing.
So amazing the local dairy farmers were finding that their cows were getting stressed and milk production was going down.
So my mother represents the farmers and gets the drag strip shut down. It apparently wasn't on legal zoning anyway,
but how annoying! It was a long drive to Atco in NJ...
having absolute privacy is a real luxury in inhabited areas. You really need to get away from it all to be guaranteed of freedom from unnatural noise.
Many feel noise is a pollution of sorts. Well, join the club of water and air concerns.
A complete lack of noise is really unusual and I find spooky. I've been in an anechoic chamber once. Boy does one's heart beat loudly...
With the exception of the one crazed mocking bird that goes through some kind of screeching routine right outside my bedroom, I say the more birds the merrier.
Lots of frogs and crickets. Beavers thumping. Though I think howling wolves might generate some 911 calls in suburbia...
Barking dogs have been and will likely always be a huge problem for many. My next door neighbor and his wife both work and the dog barks and barks when left alone outside in its pen. Nice German Shepard. Not sure if she knows me as friend or foe yet...I'm usually on a tractor or mower or UTV.
But bark she does. One of things that sold me on my new place in NC was that almost by clockwork at 5:30am the local coon dogs would wake up and start to howl.
Farm down the way, noise on the wind, fun to listen to, on my porch with a mug of coffee,
because after about 20 seconds, another set of dogs would start barking, another farm woken up.
And then another. Everyone has dogs.
Now some would complain.
I thought it was a wonderful morning symphony.
I'm at fourth gear shift point from the local stop sign. Constant stream of redneck pickup trucks with confederate flags and no mufflers. Even sitting back as far as I am from the road the noise rumbles in. Geez I wish they had car inspections here. Real ones, with emission control checking; that would likely get a lot of mufflers back on.
But I'm in the South and if you're a man, well....
I say, as the old ad said, Midasize it....
