those everyday little mysteries

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well i still havent located the source of that funny 'bip' noise in this room, although it has stopped now, and the other night i left a rubbish bag at the back door ( forgot to put it out in time for collection again ) and in the morning i saw that a cat or whatever had ripped it open. fine, but in the spilled contents was rubbish that was not mine! one of those long cardboard cylinders that comes from inside a paper towel thing was there, and i dont buy them.
no one would bother struggling up my steep driveway to look for a rubbish bag they couldnt know was there in my back porch.
i also get woken by a banging sound upstairs and i cant find what is doing it! no amount of shutting cupboards or checking doors is doing the trick. i have even sat on the stairs waiting for the fucking noise but it stops until i go back to bed! infuriating but true.

so........what little mysteries go on at your place?

― donna (donna), Monday, 7 July 2003 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

im a bit bored. any amusing tales?

― donna (donna), Monday, 7 July 2003 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

when i was very very young (about 5) i would here this tapping noise
on my bedroom wall. it would only happen at night, and for some
reason i got it into my head that somebody was trapped next door and
was trying to communicate with me. i couldnt work out what they were
trying to say with their tapping but i would copy the pattern of
the knocks, just so they knew that someone was listening. this
would go on a long time, tap tap tap.

last year i told my parents about this to their great amusement.
my dad pointed out that it was probably the wooden floorboards
contracting in the cold of the night....what amazes me is that
i never told anyone, even though i thought someone was in trouble.

― joni, Monday, 7 July 2003 08:00 (twenty-two years ago)

here = hear, obv.

― joni, Monday, 7 July 2003 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Why does soap disappear so much faster at this house than any other house I've lived in? Is HSA using my special Lush soap, even though he swears he hates stinky soap? Is the weird soap dish EATING it? And why does that bathroom door always slam when there's no one in there? Are we haunted by a soap-eating ghost?

― kate (kate), Monday, 7 July 2003 08:05 (twenty-two years ago)

How can a benevolent and omnipotent god allow such suffering to take place in the world?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 7 July 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate, perhaps you are washing more now that you have a boyfriend? (sorry!)

I had a bip recently, but I soon deduced that it was coming from a smoke alarm, no doubt because of a dying battery. I've fixed it by taking the battery out.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

If anything, I'm washing less, because he insists that I shouldn't wash my hair every day.

At my mum's old house, there was a new addition out to the back. One day when there was an earthquake, a frog must have got trapped between the walls, because we heard this scratching and ribbiting noise between the walls. It freaked me out and I thought it was a ghost until we realised what had happened. Now I wonder if there is a ghost frog which continues to make scratching and ribbitting noises.

― kate (kate), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

as a kid i would go to bed and fall asleep only to woken by the bed trembling. this continued for years. i finally asked my sisters whether they'd experienced this sensation in their rooms. they had, but had each dismissed it as the mind playing tricks when one is sleepy. we asked mum and she laughingly explained that during particular cycles, the washing machine would vibrate the house and hence shake the beds. my sisters and i have naturally gone on and become world beating brain surgeons. we're oh so bright.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Monday, 7 July 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Where the hell do all those single socks go? Two go in the washer. Two come out. Two go in the dryer. ONE comes out! Dryer demons give me my socks!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 7 July 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

abt ten years ago, when i first moved into my current flat and shared it for a while w. my sister, i slept in the front room, which looks out over clapton passage

often at abt three in the morning, if i had the window open (i generally do if it's not actuall raining into the room or below zero), i wd smell bacon cooking (the kitchens in my building are all at the back)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 July 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Where the hell do all those single socks go? Two go in the washer. Two come out. Two go in the dryer. ONE comes out! Dryer demons give me my socks!!!

THere was a whole article in Omni or something to explain this! They build up so much static electricity in the dryer that they make the leap to anti-matter! If you live in the anti-universe, you get EXTRA socks coming out of the dryer - very annoying! You put in two socks! Three come out!

― kate (kate), Monday, 7 July 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The sock thing has got totally out of hand since I moved into a flat with a washer-dryer. I used to use one sock every few months. Now I have an enormous rack of singletons that has overtaken the pairs. I'm going to have to start restricting myself to one sock variety.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 7 July 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

missing socks become anti-matter? are you JOKING? does this only work for socks? people?

― kephm, Monday, 7 July 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

What really irritates me is that I used to be SOOO GOOD about keeping my sock pairs together. Since moving in with HSA, all my socks have become singletons. I think there's something about male sweat which helps bring about the leap to anti-matter.

― kate (kate), Monday, 7 July 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Even single variety socks do not match, because the newer ones look darker and stretchier etc than the older ones. Unless both socks of a pair get holes in and are retired at exactly the same time. It depends on your individual toenail length/general level of sock wearage/tolerance of holes I suppose.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 7 July 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Every weeknight sometime between 6 and 8 a white truck comes down the hill outside our house and as it passes the house next door the driver taps the horn once, stops at the intersection, then zips around the corner. The neighbors don’t know who this is, and it’s been happening for over a year now.

― omar little, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 00:21 (seven years ago)

that’s odd

― self (alomar lines), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 04:26 (seven years ago)

maybe this driver taps the horn at every intersection

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 04:32 (seven years ago)

maybe the driver’s got the wrong house and they tap for thee...

― estela, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 04:50 (seven years ago)

Your house is...on a hill?

Haunting

― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 04:58 (seven years ago)

maybe the honk is actually a cry for help, in a way

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 05:01 (seven years ago)

the honk is saying "do you hear me? i am trying to be heard, and i'm regularly available on weekend evenings"

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 05:01 (seven years ago)

but also "get out of my way, world!", and "look out!"

it is a reliable honk of strength and confidence

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 05:14 (seven years ago)

i want to hear this honk and honk back

heeee-yaaahnk! heeeeeee-yaaahnk

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 05:15 (seven years ago)

probably just picking up the neighbor around the corner to carpool to work, a warning honk

― self (alomar lines), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 05:15 (seven years ago)

Maybe years ago he chained up someone behind the wall of a house and bricked it over, and his honk is a perverse demented “hello” to his dead enemy. The Honk Of Amontillado.

― omar little, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 05:19 (seven years ago)

tomorrow evening might be a good time to listen closely and make sure no one else is honking back

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 05:23 (seven years ago)

i guess it's predictable that i want to hear the honk and honk back, but i also want to listen for someone creepily honking back. there's probably a craigslist section for this kind of thing

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 05:29 (seven years ago)

I’m going to keep my ears open. May need to dig a lot deeper here.

― omar little, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 05:41 (seven years ago)

No mysteries for fifteen years and now this

― mor frog bs (S-), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 09:25 (seven years ago)

it's a mystery

― i’ll hufflepuff i’ll blow you away (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 09:56 (seven years ago)

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