I just have to continue the sounds of Asia stories. I thought when I left Korea to go to Taiwan I had heard “Für Elise” for the last time this trip. I was wrong. As I was writing the last text I heard a faint melody being played. It sounded like they had hidden speakers somewhere playing the radio on very low volume. But when I listened carefully it was just a short melody that was repeated, quite annoying actually. You know when you hear a faint noise and it irritates you to dead but if you don’t listen you don’t hear it. I could not figure out where it came from and was just hoping it would be gone by the time I would go to bed.
Later when we were sitting at the window in the restaurant next door to the hotel, I suddenly heard the melody again! I looked out and saw the garbage truck driving by. I had heard a truck in my hotel room on the 22nd floor emptying garbage bins in the neighbourhood. This means that it is played quite loud. Poor guys that have to do that job all day. I can imagine that kind of treatment being used as torture.
This afternoon we got stuck in the weekend traffic coming back from customer site and guess what I suddenly heard!? “Für Elise”. And guess what it was!? The garbage truck. Good thing that they work during the day…
