On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 17:02:54 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote:

:JimL wrote:
: We recently moved the country to an old homestead.
:
: Normally we like the quiet, but we are really starting to get freaked
: out by the sounds of a car door slamming.
:
: Every time it happens, we go the front of the house and look out in
: our driveway which is a quarter mile from the dirt county road and
: there is nothing there. It is half a mile to the nearest neighbor.
:
: We contacted the previous owner said she said it spooked her, too.
:
: This has been happening at least once a day for the last 3 months and
: we are frustrated.
:
: Any ideas?
:
:Earplugs. Fifty cents. Problem solved.

Yeah, I gotta laugh too. 1/2 mile from the nearest neighbor and you are
freaked out by noise! I guess it just goes to show you can never have
enough peace. I consider myself lucky when it's quiet where I live and I
guess it's one reason I get up so early in the morning. It's about the
only time you can depend on it being quiet (well, almost depend!).

I was feeling sorry for myself until I had a conversation with a woman I
know who said she grew up in Brooklyn, NY. She told me about the ambient
noise problems there and I quickly realized it was 10x worse than what I
have to put up with. She said to keep her sanity she got into listening
to the radio all the time. It gave her an anchor amidst the chaos. She
and I volunteer at a college radio station.