Okay, this is weird
Jun. 17th, 2009 02:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danceswithgaryI live on a major road. Granted it's the outer edges of suburbia, but it's still the major north-south route around here. There is traffic ALL DAY AND NIGHT LONG. Our house is set back 100 feet from the road and we have trees and bushes that muffle the sound of the cars and trucks, but it's still there, the background noise of my life. In the summer, when the windows are open, it's white noise.
The noise went away 25, make that 30 minutes ago.
At about 2:30 AM I heard a blaring horn go by (pissed me off because it was loud enough to wake me) and it faded north and then nothing. I was kind of expecting the doppler woosh of one of the police cars that go by at eighty miles an hour - distinctive sound that's usually accompanied by flashing lights. The speed limit is forty, but the straight stretch of road seems to tempt a lot of people to go a lot faster.
Nothing.
Seriously, there's always traffic.
After lying awake during ten minutes of increasingly eerie silence, I got up and put on my robe and slippers and did the stereotypical walk up the drive to look both ways along the road.
I see...NOTHING. No flashing lights at the corners about a quarter mile away where the volunteer firemen usually re-route traffic. No fire sirens (the station is less than a mile away and you can hear them go off).
If traffic doesn't re-commence soon, I'll end up being up the rest of the night because of the visions of zombies danc...shambling around in my head.
*shivers*
ETA (15 minutes later): Still nothing. I put on my distance glasses and went back out and still can't see anything happening. Did I mention I'm home alone? Gary's out-of-town and my daughter's at her boyfriend's and, oh yeah, I have no voice so yelling loud enough that the neighbors could possibly hear me isn't going to happen. I checked the doors and they're locked.
Oh.
I never thought I'd be so happy to see and hear a car go by. I just hope whoever/whatever was driving had a heartbeat and no craving for braaaaains.
It's coming up on an hour and one car is really doing nothing to restore confidence.
If this keeps up, I may be opening one of my apocafic docs and making lots of notes on first-person creeped-out-ness.
ETA2 (another 30 minutes later): Two more cars went by, which is sort of good, but I'm not walking outside to check again until the sun's up in about an hour or so. In the meantime, three hours of sleep on top of 4 hours a night since Gary left (Saturday night) makes for a very tired Val. I shall crawl back into bed and hide under my pillow and stop listening for traffic.
Oh hey, make that three cars. *yawns*
The noise went away 25, make that 30 minutes ago.
At about 2:30 AM I heard a blaring horn go by (pissed me off because it was loud enough to wake me) and it faded north and then nothing. I was kind of expecting the doppler woosh of one of the police cars that go by at eighty miles an hour - distinctive sound that's usually accompanied by flashing lights. The speed limit is forty, but the straight stretch of road seems to tempt a lot of people to go a lot faster.
Nothing.
Seriously, there's always traffic.
After lying awake during ten minutes of increasingly eerie silence, I got up and put on my robe and slippers and did the stereotypical walk up the drive to look both ways along the road.
I see...NOTHING. No flashing lights at the corners about a quarter mile away where the volunteer firemen usually re-route traffic. No fire sirens (the station is less than a mile away and you can hear them go off).
If traffic doesn't re-commence soon, I'll end up being up the rest of the night because of the visions of zombies danc...shambling around in my head.
*shivers*
ETA (15 minutes later): Still nothing. I put on my distance glasses and went back out and still can't see anything happening. Did I mention I'm home alone? Gary's out-of-town and my daughter's at her boyfriend's and, oh yeah, I have no voice so yelling loud enough that the neighbors could possibly hear me isn't going to happen. I checked the doors and they're locked.
Oh.
I never thought I'd be so happy to see and hear a car go by. I just hope whoever/whatever was driving had a heartbeat and no craving for braaaaains.
It's coming up on an hour and one car is really doing nothing to restore confidence.
If this keeps up, I may be opening one of my apocafic docs and making lots of notes on first-person creeped-out-ness.
ETA2 (another 30 minutes later): Two more cars went by, which is sort of good, but I'm not walking outside to check again until the sun's up in about an hour or so. In the meantime, three hours of sleep on top of 4 hours a night since Gary left (Saturday night) makes for a very tired Val. I shall crawl back into bed and hide under my pillow and stop listening for traffic.
Oh hey, make that three cars. *yawns*
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Date: 2009-06-17 12:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-17 01:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-17 06:20 pm (UTC)Glad that things are back to normal! (Well, hubby-less normal anyway)
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Date: 2009-06-17 06:41 pm (UTC)In the dark with the spiders.
Uh...never mind.
:-P