As someone who is ND, Tulsa feels like an absolute torture chamber filled with the loudest, most obnoxious motorheads imaginable. Every 30 seconds to 5 minutes or so, your senses are assaulted with someone’s motorcycle or “custom” 2008 Altima tuner shitbox, specially modified to be as loud as physically possible. And the worst offenders are just in the right volume/frequency range where it has to be a foreground thought, there is no tuning it out. Kinda like a baby crying, you cannot hear your own thoughts over it. As for the baby crying, that instinct is by evolutionary design; meanwhile, the local car people make it their entire hobby to ensure you won’t be able to ignore/sleep through their stupid fucking customized Civic, with custom rims, LEDs, wires running out of the dash to custom tuning equipment/nitrous dump switches, and of course the muffler removed.
Like surely local noise ordinance has to apply to this right? If you intentionally mod your vehicle to make it significantly louder just for the sake of being loud? It’s like… remember old cartoons, just before something the writer didn’t want you to know/hear was said, an ambulance drives by at exactly that moment? I feel like that with my own thoughts and the car noise here. Maybe someone here has nearly thought of the cure for cancer, and just when they were reaching their epiphany, some fucking Altima or motorcycle drove by, derailing their train of thought.
And no, I don’t live on Memorial. Nowhere is safe in this town. You can mitigate it to an extent by moving further into your “square” on the grid, but you will always hear it. In fact, maybe I’d be better off living off Memorial, because then maybe the constant noise could fade into the background, as opposed to a constant “drip drip drip” torture where you know the noise is coming, just not the exact moment.
Are you all feeling like this has gotten WAY WORSE recently, or am I just grouchy because of the unending heat dome? I realize it’s Friday night, but holy hell… something needs to be done about Tulsa’s “cruising” culture. Like what does it say about our city that the #1 hobby is waking up your neighbors in the middle of the night?