Coffee Musings 011807

Modern appliances contribute to noise pollution. When I lived in Seattle my refrigerator was incredibly loud, and after many years I finally asked the superintendent to look at it. It was broken. The noise was just horrible, but I couldn't stand my superintendents so it took me a while to ask them for any assistance. I remember writing poetry about how loud it was. It was hard to concentrate with that noise so close to my ear, and so loud. I lived in a studio apartment. It definitely added to my overall less-than-stellar Seattle experience.

Before I moved to Seattle I lived in a studio apartment in Madison, Wisconsin, and I don't remember any substantial noise pollution.

Now, in a suburb of Maryland I still run my schedule around a modern appliance, this time a dishwasher. I can't run the dishwasher and sleep, and I can't run the dishwasher and listen to music without turning the music up so loud that the neighbors below bang their broomstick against their ceiling/my floor. I live in a one-bedroom apartment this time, so there is some distance from the source of the noise. Usually, I try to run the dishwasher when I'm out so I don't deal with the noise, and I come back to clean dishes. Isn't that a good plan!