An unexplained alarm
There it is again. The unmistakable hiss of a radio. I know exactly which radio. A small receiver that sits on the shelf in the other room. And the hiss begins every day at exactly the same time. Just loud enough to be noticed but not much of a nuisance. I have learned over the years that you can program devices to do things at the same time each day. Think of it as an alarm if you will. But I cannot find how to turn it off. I mean I can turn the radio off but that is not the problem. Each time that I push the power off I am simply resetting my problem for another 24 hours. The building display tells me nothing other than the power is on. The manual that comes with the radio tells me nothing of use. So I am left with a mystery. If I remove the battery it might reset the function. Or not. It might just change things to another moment in the day when I am not paying attention. So I’m going to let things go and treat this as a lesson in life. We can respond to the things that alarm us but we do not always find an obvious solution. I consider myself fortunate because it is a radio and it could be tuned to some awful background music. A simple white noise is nothing more then something that could help me sleep under other circumstances. And for those who need to know this is happening every afternoon. Which means that I will find an answer. At a moment when I least expect it. Not going to get too upset with a small hissing sound. I will save that for snakes and deflating tires.
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