It's no secret that Mrs. HM is a night owl, and Farmer H is an early bird. He's often in bed by 7:30, while Mrs. HM watches TV through the early morning hours.
Friday night, I sat down on the short couch around 11:30. Nothing much caught my interest on TV. Nothing good on the cooking channels. I switched between King of Queens and The Goldbergs, most episodes of which I've already seen several times.
Around 11:50, I noticed an odd sound. A humming noise. What in the Not-Heaven? It seemed to be in the area of the master bathroom. Did Farmer H run a bath in the big triangle tub? Was that the jets? Sometimes he does that if he can't sleep, or if his legs are hurting. It was quite possible, even though I hadn't been in the living room to hear the initial running of the bathwater. I made a mental note to check in a half hour or so.
My lackluster viewing options betrayed me. I nodded off to sleep, and woke at 3:00 a.m. The noise was still going. Time to worry. What if Farmer H fell asleep and slipped under the water??? Or maybe it was just the light over the toilet, which has a built-in fan. You'd think Farmer H would not go to sleep with a light on in the master bathroom. Of course I had to get up to investigate.
I muted the sound on the TV. Opened the bedroom door. No light was showing in the bathroom. In fact, there was no sound from the jets of the big triangle tub. Farmer H started stirring in the bed, thrashing against his breather hose.
"Sorry. But there's a noise. A humming. I thought maybe you were having a bath. Do you hear it?"
"Not now. But I guess I better check it out."
Farmer H came out to the living room.
"I hear it now. It sounds like the well! I'll go down in the basement and check. I had the water off this afternoon to fix the connector on the water heater."
Indeed, I had passed Farmer H headed home when I went to town. He didn't stop for his Friday afternoon bull-shooting session with his cronies. Now he headed down the 13 rail-less steps to the basement. Halfway down, he made a discovery.
"Oh. I found out what it is. The fan in the NASCAR bathroom!"
"So it's been running for about 12 hours now?"
"I guess so. I used it when I was down there working on the connector."
Farmer H turned off the light in the NASCAR bathroom, and the humming stopped.
I suppose it might still be going, if I'd found more appealing fare on TV.
2 comments:
Nothing that holds your interest on TV? Time to invest in some DVDs. Apart from the news and weather I almost never watch actual TV. I'm glad the humming noise was discovered and turned off.
River,
I have plenty of DVDs in the basement, but nothing to play them on up here with our living room TV system. I don't want to keep sitting at the kitchen table all night to watch on my laptop.
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