Top 10 Least favorite Sounds

Several weeks ago I posted my top ten favorite sounds. I've been prompted to write out my top ten LEAST favorite sounds. So here goes:

1. An out-of-tune piano. Mr. and Mrs. bride and groom...when you ask me to play for your wedding and I ask you to make sure the church has their piano tuned...don't just assume like every other bride and groom that the church always keeps their piano tuned. I stopped playing weddings because of you.

2. A piece of junk car sound system with the Bass cranked all the way up. Like...ok...if you actually have a decent system...go ahead and crank it. But some of you poor wannabes are turning the treble down and the bass all the way up on your stock speakers and you actually think you are booming down the street. It SOUNDS LIKE CRAP. Yes. I just said crap.

3. When Cooper turns all his trains on and sets them on their side and goes to play in the other room. It's like....whirrr...zzzzzzzz.....ssshhhhh.... times 50.

4. There's a certain rendition of a certain patriotic song that I saw in a video once that made a little vomit come up in the back of my throat. Only a couple of my friends will know what I'm referring to on this.

5. The drill at the Dentist. I know y'all are with me on that one.

6. Somebody else's kid whining. I have to deal with my own kid whining lady...would you please smack your kid?

7. The sound of someone singing "just" sharp or flat on a sustained note. No matter how hard I try...I can't stop my face from contorting on that one.

8. When the TV, the washing machine, cooper's trains, and the neighbor's blower are all going at the same time and Suzii tries to talk to me about anything important, I break down.

9. Hearing someone make fun of how much I love my kid

10. This last one is sort of a LEAST favorite AND a favorite. I went to my niece's 5th grade Christmas orchestra recital a few years back. It was so horrible...the total combination of "out-of-tune" with the "timing" of all of their playing...the fact that I could actually tell you what song they were "trying" to play. It was the most hilarious thing I've ever heard in my life. I literally almost wet myself and was gasping for air from laughing so hard. Imagine it with me: Violins, Clarinets, Horns, Flutes, and Drums. Boom...chick..crash..whine...pbbpbbb...wwhiiirrr...boom.

Well there ya have it. This was for you Russ.