Wednesday, May 27, 2009
What's Dat Sound?
This morning Joe was running late for the airport and couldn't catch a cab, so he talked me into quickly loading the kids in the car and driving him. As we were pulling into the airport, AJ called out excitedly, "What's dat?!?" An airplane, I told him absentmindedly, assuming that he must be jazzed about the huge planes everywhere. A few seconds passed and AJ said impatiently "What's dat sound??!?" I realized he was talking about the rumble strips that warn drivers to slow down. This is one of the many things that are just taken in on autopilot by my thirtysomething mind as I think about piles of laundry and getting breakfast. AJ made me realize again how funny rumble strips can be. Every time we drove over a set (and there were at least a dozen more), he giggled and said "Rumble strips! Bzzzt! Bzzzt! Funny!"
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I remember when we were kids and mom would take us out to Winterset or Dexter. All the 4-way stop signs on the paved back roads were installed with rumble strips at some point. We used to wait in anticipation for those strips--watching the road and asking mom how far until the stop sign. Then, finally, when they were in sight, we would make the rumble noise with our mouths, trying to time it exactly to the moment when the noise would start and stop. Funny how little moments with kids make you remember stuff like that. The rumble strip mania must be in his genes!
I remember when we were kids and mom would take us out to Winterset or Dexter. All the 4-way stop signs on the paved back roads were installed with rumble strips at some point. We used to wait in anticipation for those strips--watching the road and asking mom how far until the stop sign. Then, finally, when they were in sight, we would make the rumble noise with our mouths, trying to time it exactly to the moment when the noise would start and stop. Funny how little moments with kids make you remember stuff like that. The rumble strip mania must be in his genes!
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