Your Words Senator: Mapping the Miles of Sounds

My longtime partner/associate/friend/confidant/chauffeur and I reached an important milestone at the end of 2008. As our relationship hit its eighth year, seventh month and one-day anniversary, we rolled over into 100,000 miles.

As a way to commemorate our great achievement, I wanted to develop a map of my car through it’s own world of sounds. There are many new sounds that have made themselves known throughout the years, but more interestingly the sounds that are not being heard in my car anymore. Enjoy

NEW SOUNDS:

Bird chirping noises from under the console when the heat is turned up
Engine whining and growling when I am accelerating
Heavy engine breathing after a long, high-speeds on the high way
Hitchhikers who turn out to be cratered faced tennis pros
Cries of agony at the gas pumps (on temporary hiatus)
British voice who gives directions from the Garmin

GRAVEYARD OF SOUNDS
(Sounds no longer heard in or around my Xterra)

Music – No radio or stereo (See also: 10” wave box)
Air conditioning
Teenagers
10 times around Loop 10 (reunions should be scheduled)
Patrick snoring in Jacksonville before Georgia/Florida
M. Mullen climbing on my roof or hanging umbrellas outside the window (all whilst driving)
Mud splattering from driving off-road
Eating Wendy’s – this also applies to smells
Talking on old Nokia cell phones and the playing of ‘Snake’
3 AM runs to Wal-Mart, Waffle House

Contribute your own sound memories of my Xterra by posting a comment.

YOUR WORDS SENATOR AL FRANKEN:

“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.”

YOUR WORDS CONGRESSMAN ANH “JOSEPH” CAO:

“I don’t want to conform to any ideology, to be put into a little corner”
“I truly espouse Aristotle’s definition of virtue: To walk in the middle line.”

- Anh Cao is the first Vietnamese-born person to be elected to the US Congress