Sounds that bother you...

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Me, electric equipment buzzing.

Which sounds bother you most?

My mothers attrocious eating habits. The noises she makes make me want to jump out if a window. She has absolutely no manners at the table at all. I have to pray whenever I'm around her when she's eating just to keep from going insane. She also loudly smacks her lips and sucks her fingers, all of them. She makes so much noise.

I told her about her terrible table manners once and she said "let me enjoy my food, I don't have a man". What does that even mean?! What does that have to do with good manners?

She thinks I'm going to move into her apartment and take care of her when she gets old but she's going straight to a home, assisted living facility or a hospice.

I just can't with that noise. If I had to hear it everyday, I'd eventually end up killing myself or voluntarily committing myself to a psych ward for an indefinite period if time.

People noises - eating (I hear you, dc2610), snoring, breathing, bashing teeth together, whispering, yawning, slurping, loud clapping.

Eating's the worst - it can make me hit my head.

I also hate the rustle of crisp (potato chip) packets, loud music, loud engines.

There's probably other stuff that I can't think of right now.

It means she would rather be having sex but she doesn't have a man in her life so she is using her enjoyment of food as a substitute for sexual pleasure. And that's why she exaggerates her eating noises.

I am glad we are not talking about my mother, even if she were still alive.

Her sexual urges are not something I need details about.

Um...thanks for explaining that to me. Yuk!! ! THE MEXT TIME IM GOING TO RUN OUT OF HER APARTMENT SCREAMING! Gross.

Sigh. I'm almost sorry I asked. LOL

Gum popping also drives me insane. I live in NYC where this is an acceptable practice by women everywhere. It is disgusting, low down, low classed, nasty and rude. And they've had the nerve to get angry at me and stop speaking to me when I've asked them to stop doing it!

I figured you would regret asking, my sincerest apologies. LOL

My dad used to make the most obnoxious eating noises I have ever heard, really truly obnoxious to all who heard him. I don't even want to think about his eating noises having the same meaning, yuck! I think someone, somewhere, must have finally told him off over it because he finally stopped.

jazz music, discordant modern classical music.

Guns being loaded cocked or discharged; and I am not attempting to be funny. In fact just a couple of hours ago my boss who for some reason brought his 22 rifle to the office cocked it while walking by my office and I jumped and nearly dove under my desk.

I love the steady hum of a tattoo machine, I find it very calming and relaxing. It seems a very zen, meditative sound to me.

OTOH, I positively cannot abide doorbells. They fry my entire nervous system.

Children - talking, playing, screaming, anything, I hate it
Peoples eating habits - Smacking when they eat, scraping the plate with their cutlery
People noise - People talking, loud clapping, shouting, yelling, cheering etc.

I hate balloons also, I am petrified of them. I don't like being in the same room with them because when they pop the sound usually brings me to tears.

Much depends on how close I am to a meltdown, but human cities are just downright psychologically pathogenic.

I agree with several other posters about the sound of people chewing - my dad was particularly bad over this when I was a kid.

Small children are a nightmare.

A lot of electrical hums just grate - painfully, although the dehumidifier here seems to be an odd exception to this. At the moment all I have is a very quiet whisper from the laptop fan, but by old PC could be really difficult, especially when under stress already. I really can do without noise, ATM.

There comes a point when just about any artificial noise, and not a few natural ones, can just be too much, and meltdown or shutdown become likely.

Any extremely loud noise that blares at a irregular frequency. Strangely enough, I'm quite used to loud children and people in general now than when I was a few years ago.

Screeching noises do it for me --
Crying babies/screaming children
Power tools
The ever-popular fingernails on a chalkboard
Styrofoam squeaking together
A metal fork scraping across a dinner plate

Teeth clicking or grinding together drives me nuts. The worst is sitting near someone eating who is wearing dentures that don't fit well. I can't even describe how awful that is to me. I just want to smack the person making the noise.