Lady Wonder Wench is commenting on this week’s podcast…about hearing strange sounds in the night.
It’s not just the sounds he doesn’t pay attention to … it’s the NUMBER of sounds and the frequency! I know, I know, he’s my Louie Louie Lad and he and Big Louie protect me to the max. But he doesn’t HEAR what I do, as often as I do. Okay, so maybe there isn’t anything there.But I HEARD IT!!!!
And when he finally heard the same ticky-tocky sounds this time, it felt like a sort of victory … but only sort of. How come I can hear strange noises in the night, all around, and he can’t? I’m not looking for disaster – or the wind in the trees. Am I being overly sensitive? I don’t think so.Should I just wait until the sky falls?
My wife and I have five senses, but between us, not five each. I see a lot better than she does, especially at night. She hears much better than I do. I have tinnitus from the years I spent with headphones on listening to myself talk on the radio. Dick did that much longer than I did. Maybe it affected his hearing too.
I believe women have better hearing than men, in general, although what Tom said makes sense. (My husband has tinnitus as well – from his days serving as a loadmaster on C130’s). I have also noticed that my sense of smell is much more acute than his. Many years ago, but about 2 years after we had relocated to SC, I kept complaining about an odor in our “Carolina Room” (sunroom with a lot of windows, but an integral part of the house). A few months later, hubby called something to my attention one evening: a flock of “birds” flying at a great rate of speed around and around our backyard just at dusk. Long story short, they were bats. Guess where they had made their home? In the space between the roof and the floor of our attic. What I had been smelling was the guano up there. We waited one night to see where they came from — and it was from a teeny, tiny space between the roof where the fascia boards met – about 1/2″ wide. THEN I had to find a licensed “bat remediator” because bats are protected by the gov’t and they cannot be killed or hurt in the process. Not to bore you with all the details, but it’s a good thing I put two and two together. I was told that, most of the time with bat infestations, the first folks learn of them is when they break through the sheetrock (or their guano seeps through).
I frequently ask “did you hear that” and I am told “It’s nothing, just the HVAC heating/cooling and creaking. It’s always up above us, and I keep hoping he is right (this time….)