I do not pay any more attention than you normally would living on quarter acre lots in a suburban situation to the comings and goings of my neighbors. Perhaps I pay a tad more attention to the neighbor on the street perpendicular to ours as our backyards abut on a corner and their garage entrance is in the back of the house. If the weather is half way nice we are in the backyard for one reason or another.
The other neighbor I notice a wee bit is the neighbor directly across from us as it is almost a bee line from our driveway across the street to their driveway. Again if I am outside in front or inside in the front of the house I may hear a vehicle or car doors being shut.
All this changed a few months back after they bought a new Honda CR-V hybrid. When they turn the corner to our street the car has obviously gone into full electric mode. When they are backing out of their garage again it is in full electric mode. In this mode, the car makes a fairly high pitched , loud sound that touches several notes that tend to rise and fall repeatedly.
Initially I did not know what was doing the “singing”. For some reason the sound seemed to me to be the audio signaling I imagined an angel might make just before they suddenly appeared. As time went on my interpretation of the reverberations has changed. Now, for some reason, it reminds me of the rising and falling crescendo of sound Dr. Who’s Tardis generates just before it leaves or arrives.
I had been thinking it was the particular vehicle of our neighbors until recently. As I was exiting my vehicle in a shopping center parking lot a different Honda CR-V hybrid pulled in next to me… making the same music.
However, I am still waiting for Dr. Who to ring our doorbell. I am ready for an adventure on another planet at gawd knows what time period. To be gone for what subjectively feels like days, weeks or months only to return in time for dinner.
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