A truly Hitchcockian Morning

06Jun10

At 7:30 this morning I was awakened by a jack hammer sound that was reverberating through my entire bedroom area. Was it the much awaited earthquake? Was there some neighborhood construction that went wrong? Alarmed by it, I jumped out of bed. But then it stopped.

So, i decided to go makes some tea. Put the teapot on the stove and went for my customary peek into my backyard, wondering if its a beautiful Cali spring day. But wait! What the hell? A bunch of crows, at least 8-10 pecking on our lawn, which was unusual. Aware of my presence, they started cawing synchronously. It was unnerving, especially for someone who was barely awake! Undaunted though, i began shooing them away. But all they did was fly and perch themselves on the trees above, still squawking murderously. I decide to move closer to the house, but still looking up,  then suddenly one of them braver ones comes and flys right above my head. Wtf?! I got the message and retreated, who was I to mess around with them angry feathered fowl.

Finally tea in hand, find myself on the couch reading todays news and the hammering noise starts once again! Is this for real, i say to myself. Where is that sound coming from. Aha! then i realized that, i had switched on the sprinklers last night and I remember amongst all the chaos with the crows, hearing a ticking sound outside. Were they related somehow? So I decided to check, but were the crows still there? What do I do?

Now comes the fun part, I decide to take my boom box with me – music loud, read once that’s how tribes hunted animals, loud music disorients, right? But luckily for me, there was just one crow still cawing but eh, no numbers, no power. Bravely and cautiously I tread, switching off the music, patiently waiting for that ticking sound. Et voila, thats exactly what it was! Whew! There was only one thing left to do..

GOOGLE! “Hammering sound, sprinkler system”. There is actually a name for it, haha, u guess it – ‘Water Hammer‘. Without going into details of it, its something to do with air bubbles inside the pipe.

There was only two things to do, shut the sprinkler system and get my bee-bee gun out!

This morning totally reminded of the great Mr. Hitchcock’s movie The Birds, so this ones for him! And heres a clip, that is eerily similar to my experience, without the children being attacked of course..

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