phone calls from family
May 23, 2005
When you get older and move away from home, sometimes you get phone calls from family out of the blue. It’s great, but getting bad news one time makes every call you ever get in the future give you a little pang inside. Now when they call, you just hope that everyone is ok and nobody is in the hospital or worse. So today my mom called me at work. Yikes, here comes the pang.
“Mom, everything OK?”
“Michael” (deep breath) “I need a helicopter noise.”
…… Silence while brain searches for related background data. Nothing found. First thing comes to mind. “Should I give it to her in a .WAV file or .MP3?” Neither apparently. My Mom, who is the Grandmother of my sister’s two boys, needed to know how to make a helicopter sound effect with her mouth. Evidently she was in the middle of an intense toy helicopter rescue mission with Richie and Matthew and, in case you didn’t know, without a boss sound effect, the huey just won’t fly.
Kid’s these days are just too advanced for the sound effects we old folks were brought up with. Thanks Mom for the best phone call I will get all month. It just so happens I have two helicopter noises I make regularly. Only a loving Mom would be so appreciative of her son’s talents.
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