Uh-oh! Sounds that mean trouble!

['andersom']

Heard the sound of a falling plant. Cat reclaimed his place in the sun. 

["couldbecousin"]

  I hate glass because when it breaks, the tiny fragments fly everywhere.  So dangerous.
  So when I hear glass break at work    I go into a full-body flinch like a nervous old biddy!

I would think they would use safety glass at the place you work.

Here in my house, most of the glasses I use regularly are made of safety glass. Stronger than other glass, and when it breaks it does not splinter the way regular glass does. And it still can be pretty.

  I'd never even heard of safety glass being used in restaurants! 

[WolFish]

When I lived in Brooklyn I went to pick up a friend and on my route to the train station some guy high on angel dust started shooting everyone in sight. Luckily I was running late so I wasn't right there. I ducked behind a car until the shooting stopped and then ran. But years later I heard a car backfire and froze.
You'd think firecrackers would have the same effect but it hasn't happened since that once.

Now it's the phone ringing because it's either my mother or someone speaking French trying to sell me something.

['andersom']

  I hate glass because when it breaks, the tiny fragments fly everywhere.  So dangerous.
  So when I hear glass break at work    I go into a full-body flinch like a nervous old biddy!

I would think they would use safety glass at the place you work.

Here in my house, most of the glasses I use regularly are made of safety glass. Stronger than other glass, and when it breaks it does not splinter the way regular glass does. And it still can be pretty.

  I'd never even heard of safety glass being used in restaurants! 

Duralex Picardie glasses are pretty enough.
Duralex has a lot of tempered drinking glasses.
Douwe Egberts for a while had tea glasses that were so strong that they were used at festivals. You bought the glass and could get tea all over the festival. Those glasses are really sturdy. I have 11 of them. Once long long time ago, I had 12. All have fallen down more than once. Only one time one did not survive.

[MLA]

Unexpected silence.

The parents understand

['andersom']

Unexpected silence.

The parents understand

It's either really good, or horribly wrong. 

[Icequeen]

  I hate glass because when it breaks, the tiny fragments fly everywhere.  So dangerous.
  So when I hear glass break at work    I go into a full-body flinch like a nervous old biddy!

I would think they would use safety glass at the place you work.

Here in my house, most of the glasses I use regularly are made of safety glass. Stronger than other glass, and when it breaks it does not splinter the way regular glass does. And it still can be pretty.

I don't even think they sell glasses out of safety glass. You either get plastic or glass.

*looks to see that they do offer tempered glass now, just have never seen it here*

We have 5 favorites here, hand blown oddities from the 50's or 60's, heavy as hell and littered with finger holds...and two very thick heavy water goblets. So far they are surviving my clumsiness.

I will admit I can find the sound of breaking glass almost therapeutic if I'm the one doing the breaking.

[DirtDawg]

  Yesterday, someone in my building was singing and playing "Muskrat Love" on
  acoustic guitar.  "Muskrat Love."  Voluntarily.  That's almost as scary as the mouse noises. 

Mouse problems?  (yes, every fall they find their way in at our house, too, but my cat takes care of things. She always leaves something to clean up, but at least she takes them to her eating area when she is done torturing them to death.)

All this talk about cats and I have to ask, Do you NOT have a cat?

If you hate cats, I have "friends" who swear that a ferret is a more effective mouse predator than multiple cats.

Maybe you should get a ferret.

[DirtDawg]

I hate the sound of cars crashing into each other.

The next road over has become the north-south rat run to avoid traffic through town and with a thirty mile per hour speed limit people still drive over fifty miles per hour as they zip past town. BUT, there are intersections every block, some with a limited view of the cross street and traveling so fast one can not stop if someone does not see a car traveling almost double the speed limit.

It happens too often. Everyone is all about ME! ME! ME FIRST! To Hell with everyone else's concerns. Me First!
Without sounding too Republican, maybe they should stiffen the penalties for driving too fast and hurting someone.

There was a mom and her four year old son killed a few blocks down the road a few days ago partly because a big SUV was going very fast on a city street.

I know, I drive a huge SUV as well, but I do not drive like an fucking idiot - never have since I was about twenty two or three. I drive like a chauffeur carrying four apiaries (giant nests of bees that do not want to be disturbed) in the back seat with a boiling cup of coffee between my legs.

If I can learn to take it easy on the streets, why can others not?

["couldbecousin"]

Unexpected silence.

The parents understand

  Pet parents and pet-sitters understand too.

["couldbecousin"]

  Yesterday, someone in my building was singing and playing "Muskrat Love" on
  acoustic guitar.  "Muskrat Love."  Voluntarily.  That's almost as scary as the mouse noises. 

Mouse problems?  (yes, every fall they find their way in at our house, too, but my cat takes care of things. She always leaves something to clean up, but at least she takes them to her eating area when she is done torturing them to death.)

All this talk about cats and I have to ask, Do you NOT have a cat?

If you hate cats, I have "friends" who swear that a ferret is a more effective mouse predator than multiple cats.

Maybe you should get a ferret.

  It's a no-pets building.  The only "pets" are the mice, though since I cleaned up my apartment, there's been
   little evidence of them.  I never saw one in this building in almost 17 years living here, till last September. 

['andersom']

  I hate glass because when it breaks, the tiny fragments fly everywhere.  So dangerous.
  So when I hear glass break at work    I go into a full-body flinch like a nervous old biddy!

I would think they would use safety glass at the place you work.

Here in my house, most of the glasses I use regularly are made of safety glass. Stronger than other glass, and when it breaks it does not splinter the way regular glass does. And it still can be pretty.

I don't even think they sell glasses out of safety glass. You either get plastic or glass.

*looks to see that they do offer tempered glass now, just have never seen it here*

We have 5 favorites here, hand blown oddities from the 50's or 60's, heavy as hell and littered with finger holds...and two very thick heavy water goblets. So far they are surviving my clumsiness.

I will admit I can find the sound of breaking glass almost therapeutic if I'm the one doing the breaking.

I have a box of ugly crockery to throw with in the shed.

And when the glass-containers were above ground, making a trip to get rid of glass jars and bottles was a delight. So rewarding the sound of breaking glass. I do understand why the containers are below surface now. I do get that people living around the containers do not want to hear the sound all day. But it still is a pity.

[Icequeen]

The sound my washer made two days ago before it died.

Something between a loud squeal, a scream, and a grinding noise as it tried to agitate and spin at the same time. (tranny went)

["couldbecousin"]

The sound my washer made two days ago before it died.

Something between a loud squeal, a scream, and a grinding noise as it tried to agitate and spin at the same time. (tranny went)

  So now you have to go to a laundromat?  Pain in the pantaloons. 

[Queen Victoria]

Does a condom make a sound if it breaks?  That would be an awful sound to hear.