White Christmas 2008: VII

Speaking of Hearing…
Kristin will often put on a movie for the girls while she makes dinner. Dreading having to cook with yet another Disney tune in the background, she decided to put in a classic. The volume of this old, black-and-white was so low that she turned up the volume three times - to the system’s very maximum volume - and it was still barely audible. And, curiously, it was exactly the same volume in the family room and 30 feet away in the kitchen. Twenty minutes later there was knock at the front door and our neighbor (two doors down and across the street) was on the porch asking if we were watching Anne of Green Gables. “Yes, how did you know?” asked Kristin at the very moment she realized why it had been so hard to hear the movie. Apparently the audio was set to broadcast through our front-porch speakers. Kristin had turned it up so loud that the only people within a three block radius who couldn’t hear it were in our family room and kitchen.