Things That Beep

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Yeah, I'm with Strapples on the each tick sounds different thing. It drives me nuts.

I HATE anything that beeps or tweets.
My new (new to me) car has a malfunctioning seatbelt sensor beep that is gradually making me insane. Maybe that is why I got such a deal on it. Worth my sanity? It just seems...random...

Someone's cell phone on my floor beeps (like to alert of missed call or message) all the time, and it always sound like its it my room but it isn't my cell phone doesn't sound like that (my old one did but I know for a fact it is at home). Oh a big one is MY CAR DOOR ALARM some door alarms aren't to bad but mine is at just the right (or wrong) pitch that it drives you nuts... but then it is supposed to be irritating. Think about the person who chose the tone for that door it would be like:

FRED: Hey, Bob, listen to this and tell me what you think.
BOB: Okay.
(Bob listens)
BOB: Ah, that has to be the most irritating sound I've ever heard!
FRED: Perfect! That's the one I'll use!

I can't think of anyothers off the top of my head but I'm sure there are more.

Two more things:
Cell phone tweets. (Typical work scenario...Me: "What is tweeting?" everyone else: silence. Repeat for each tweet.)
Grocery store checkout, beep for each item scanned. Why? I have learned to position myself optimally so that the soundwaves have the least amplitude right by my ear. I don't care if the checker thinks I am weird and wiggly. I am weird and wiggly.

I agree with strapples on the multi-tick thing. Light ticks, hard ticks, loud ticks, soft ticks...never sequential. Annoying.

Having been a cashier at Wal*Mart I would have to agree on that beeping, but unfortunately it needs to be there, you learn to listen for it as you scan, that's how you know if you accidently scanned somrthing twice so you can fix it before the customer complains. However, there were a few lanes (like lane 7) that had a beep that vibrated the speaker a little everytime it was almost inperceptive ALMOST with my exeptional sensitivity to high pitched sounds I could definately hear it and it was irritating... also sometime other cashiers would turn the volume up really loud on a register because they are old and deaf, and then I would get on that lane and the volume was nearly enough to blow an ear drum...

I will correct what I stated earlier; I have also noticed that my watch sounds different with each tick, but it is so quite that if it is more than a few feet away I won't hear it.



If you have the owners' manual handy, you could try to find a way to disable it.

I have thought of that...unfortunately, it is the same beep as for "hey idiot, you left your headlights on again!"

Maybe you don't need to disable the beep itself, but perhaps whatever senses whether the seatbelt is in use or not.

Oh- that is brilliant! Thanks, SSDB!

Anybody ever shop at Home Depot - I mean Home Beep-O?


My new car beeps for lots of things and I haven't figured it all out yet. It beeps when you turn it on, beeps the whole time you are in reverse (disabled that one), beeps if you forget to fasten the seatbelt, beeps if you forget to relase the parking brake and start to drive. Sometimes it beeps when I open the door to get out, but I don't know why. This car is obviously smarter than I am, but I'll catch up some day.

The worst thing in the world... having a song that you love as a ringtone for the alarm clock feature on your cell phone.

You think "it's a song I love, so I will love to hear my alarm ringing". Not true, you just end up hating that song. It's a lot better to have a standard clock alarm.

there was a really bratty dog at the pet hotel the other night... she would bark incessantly in a high pitch way, but at metronome-like intervals. over and over. same pitch, same speed.
thankfully, she does that only from the time she wakes up between 4-5am, but it was pretty miserable. started feeling the weird physical symptoms i get over these things, and it's an animal - not a person, not an object. suddenly, i found things to do that were on the other side of the building.
a real little b***h (literally and figuratively), bit her owner repeatedly at check in!
she hasn't dared to bite the staff so it would seem she knows better.

bad owner.


there really are days where i wish i were totally deaf.

yeah. mark and i twitch when we hear 'greensleaves' now.

Repetitive noises are just hell.
I get a sudden urge to just throw whatever it is out the window.

I regularly tell my alarm clock to f*** off

I live right by a parking lot and those car horns that honk repeatedly to help the person find the car in a busy parking lot can get annoying. It's not really something that ticks me off though, since I suck at remembering where I am parked, not a good thing when it is the winter in Fargo and its -10F degrees out (see, who says Aspies can't empathize?).