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As I sit, here in

As I sit, here in my office, I have the door leading to the patio open, and I can hear the world go by.
In this particular case, there is a "car repair" place abutting my company's property and they are responsible for the highest-decibel output of sound I've ever heard.
I put "car repair" in quotes, because I think there's something else going on there. I'm not sure what (not like the "fish store" below us, who apparently have a clientele of all young men in big trucks who feel an urge to buy fish every Friday afternoon. So overwhelming an urge, it seems, that they will line up around the block for such a fish-buying privilege), but it's auditorily rich and sometimes annoying.
This day, I've listened to a jingle jangle of aural delights. Sometimes, I tune out the multi layers of sound -- which can act much like white noise -- but other times, I hear each and every noise as perfectly pitched as if it were right outside my door.

Which it is.

In no special order, this is what I'm hearing:
--the refrain of the "Fur Elise." In a repetitive electronica format.
--the metallic screech of a saw.
--the barest suggestion of a phone ringing, somewhere deep in the bowels of the "car repair" place.
--glass breaking
--ball bearings or some such thing rolling around
--an obnoxious roaring
--airplanes overhead (this could be to drop off the fish store's latest "shipment")
--a clicking
--a clacking

Taking a look outside, I see one young man assembling things (sorry, can't be more specific) in a yard which also holds about 16 cars, all in disrepair. Except the thing is, they're not repairing them. They're taking a door off here, a steering wheel there, and stripping the vehicle of all its innards.

(Ooooo. An F-18 just winged by!)

Wait, now there's a deep, whirring sound going on, a lot like a giant blender...
Must look....

(brief pause)...

Well, there's one guy standing out there, looking down at something (sorry, can't be more specific) and he caught me staring at him.

They're on to me.

Hope they don't get the fish guys involved.

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