I was awakened in the middle of the night last night by what sounded like someone driving a great big truck up our sidewalk, stopping under the bedroom window, and revving the engine. Or it could have been a Tyrannosaurus looking for a way in.
It was loud. Lasted for maybe a minute, then just stopped. Goosebumps all over. And of course no sign, this morning, that this had ever happened.
I know, I know, you’re gonna tell me it was just a dream. I have no evidence to put against it. It didn’t feel like a dream, that’s all I can say.
Well, if you don’t get nightmares in this day and age we’re living in… you’re just not trying.
That happened to me once, when I lived in an upstairs apartment in the city. Noise woke me right up, and I thought I felt an impact somewhere down on the street, but when I looked out of my windows I didn’t see anything out of the ordinary. So I went back to bed, figuring it was all just a dream. Only when I did get back from my classes the next day and stepped out of the front to get my mail did I find that the front porch and the neighbor’s railing along his front walk had been totally demolished by a car that jumped the sidewalk. It happened at just the right (wrong?) angle to be hidden from any upstairs view.
Weirdness abounds.
Looked around for tire tracks and skid marks this morning, but found nothing yet.
It was aliens. Teen-aged, alien, mutant, ninja, hot rodders, with loud mufflers on their UFOs. 🙂
I forgot to tell you that I was going to drop over and let you listen to the new Glasspack mufflers I put on my dump truck, in the wee hours of the morning. 🙂
These mufflers weren’t muffling.
I paid extra for that feature. That’s what glasspacks do; they rumble. 🙂
Motorcycles. I get motorcycles here. And yes, they do seem to shut off and disappear. Or it might have been a street-cleaning truck that shut down its cleaning equipment and what was left just sounded like silence because the noise level was so different.
And by the way, I just read recently that dinosaurs couldn’t roar because of their anatomy, but probably just emitted “closed-mouth vocalizations like the crocodilians today.” That’s an actual quotation from a crostics puzzle, so it must be true. (Actually, the puzzle gives the source as Gemma Tarlach, “Call of the Dino,” in Discover Magazine, Jan/Feb 2017.)
Geckos have actual voices, but most reptiles don’t.