Mama Kat Prompt Thursday: Sounds

Welcome to blogging prompt day!
Last week I told a story about being "scolded" by a customer wheile working at a flower shop. That elicited numerous comments of similar consumer abuse experiences. Even my mother recalled being harangued over the phone years ago as a young woman working in a store by a lady dissatisfied with the lack of timely delivery of whatever she ordered.. Mother said she said something like, "Now you get on a bicycle right now and get that over here," during her tirade.
I didn't ask the era, but guess 1940's sometime.
Unfortunately, some things never change.

 

This weeks prompt is:

"Listen to the sounds in your house for 5 or 10 minutes. Write about what you hear."

 

What sounds do I hear in my house?
I took a walk around to listen. In this room, where my computer is, the ceiling fan, which is a cheap small size fan we installed, has never run quietly. It's has a noticeable creaking sort of hum that's least annoying at high speed.The A/C came on and whispered through the ceiling vent for a few minutes.
When I walked through the living room "looking" for what I could hear, I heard things I'm so used to, I don't "hear" them anymore. Things like the roof fan that vents heat out of the attic has a recognizable faint hum, if I seek to hear it. The refrigerator runs with a slight electronic buzz and I turned the standing fan on when I came in from outside a short time ago, which is softly blowing.
Since it's a weekday morning, no neighbors are running noisy gas-powered mowers, so the various electronic sounds are all there are to hear in my house.
I don't care for music playing and I turn the television on only at lunch to watch a Stargate SG-1 episode while I eat.

 The cat is presently asleep in another room, though she will often come in and say, "meow," to me or will makes sounds playing during the day and I talk to her, but that's all there is until my husband comes home.