
I only hope it doesn’t beep, chirp or trill!

Moving from left to right, as they say, my microwave
has beeps for the timing feature and a reminder that I gave it a task to do and
“It’s done already!” Its companion piece, the oven, lets me know when the
temperature I set has been reached and has its own timer. I think it may also have a signal that the
clock needs resetting. I have another
just-plain timer that has three beeps for three separate times.
I used to have an alarm clock that woke me with a buzz
or would turn the radio on at full blast to accomplish the obligatory task of getting
my pulse rate to 80+ before my feet hit the floor. My current clock gradually increases the
volume over a minute or two and is much more civilized. Should I forget to choose this feature,
however, it wakes me with a series of, you guessed it, beeps.
Like most of the world I have a PC, a smart phone
and a tablet, all tied to my Outlook Calendar(s) and all announce the imminence
of my appointments at some interval or other, pretty much at the same
time. Before I had this opportunity I
was forced to look at my watch to remember my 9:00 o’clock meeting and the only
reminders I had were the melodic chimes of my Ship’s Clock (eight bells three
times a day) or my grandmother’s Westminster chimes, which seem to bother new
visitors, especially during meetings, but which I have seemingly turned off in
my mind and ears unless I am listening for them.
My PC is new and I had to transfer all my programs
and documents to it. One of those was
Quicken, which I have used since 1996.
Interestingly, I had forgotten that I had to turn off the “beep” feature
because the “ka-ching” every time I wrote a check drove me nuts. After some difficulty I found the switch and
now do my banking with the quiet solitude of Tom Crachit on Christmas Eve.
When my frustration drives me out of the house I
find another cacophony waiting for me in my car: the seatbelt signal, the
beeper for a still-set emergency brake and of course the GPS “Turn right”
signal. Of course some of those sounds
are accompanied by a voice command from Siri or whomever, but I have learned
not to turn until the beep comes.
My cell phone has the option of making the alerts distinctive,
and the one for text arriving is entirely different than what tells me I have
mail. Incoming calls are distinctive
depending on who is calling. Voicemail
has another identifier.
One time an alert was problematic.
I had my third Infinity for only about three months
when it developed an aggravating problem.
Every time I would start the car, after about 30-seconds, it would
beep. That would repeat for perhaps half
a dozen times and then would stop. For
the life of me I couldn’t figure out why it was beeping. Finally, in desperation, I took it to the
dealer and asked the service parking attendant to investigate. She had me go through the process while
looking over my shoulder then, very respectfully honorific of my age pointed
out that there was an accompanying dashboard signal, looking somewhat like a
flat tire. The alert was to tell me that
tire pressure was low in one of my tires.
It even told me which one. It
turned out that I had a nail on my left rear tire, which was patched and my car
washed free in under half an hour.
The one thing I didn’t like about my new car and it
turned out it was trying to save my life.
I am reading about new alerts and signals coming to
cars and recently rented one that beeped when I was backing too close to an
object. My car already tells me when I leave
my keys inside, and used to tell me when I was moving outside my traffic lane. My remaining car concern is that the only
signal I don’t seem to hear is the turn signal.
My theory is that it must be on the same wave length as a woman’s voice,
which I am told is the first range we older people lose in our hearing, a fact
some men say is a blessing from God.
A favorite personality of mine was recently
interviewed on NPR with some interesting revelations. Also, this year is a centennial of sorts for
Woody Guthrie. Finally, entitlements
have been in the news for at least the last six months on almost a daily
basis. My next post will be titled Kris,
Woody, and Entitlements. Come visit to
see how I tie those disparate items together.
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