The Sounds of Love

BR and I FINALLY were able to go on our anniversary date (only a month late!!!). We went to our favorite Japanese restaurant in a nearby town. The restaurant is near some sort of waterway. (Creek? Inlet? Bayou? Your guess is a good as mine.)

Then I heard a sound that chilled my blood and made me miss a step. I had a flashback to a time when I was 12 years old…a cool spring night, wrapped in a sleeping bag in flimsy, lake-side tent. Shivering in fear, desperately wishing for daylight. The sound causing me to tremble in the darkness back then was the mating call of an alligator. Yeah, it scared me then, and it unnerved me as an adult walking across a parking lot. Didn’t even have a tent wall between me and the horny beast.

After dinner, BR and I walked sort-of kind-of near the waterway, which was about 10 feet down. We could still hear the bellowing sound, echoing across the water. BR thought he could see some movement on the opposite bank, and that was good enough.

So we came home and I started writing this post. I tried to find a Youtube clip to relay the sound…but none of the clips had the same sound. I listened to several, but no luck. The gators did have a bellowing, ugly sound…but it wasn’t the same.

Then, I started thinking. It was my mean ol’ stepbrothers (my mom and their dad were newly married at the time), were the ones that told me about the gators. Then it clicked. I searched for a clip for a bullfrog mating call. Those bastards. For over 30 years, they’ve had me scared of a friggin’ bullfrog!!!!!

But still…imagine hearing this sound in the darkened woods…when you’ve never, ever been camping before in your life…it is easy to think it comes from a mean ol’ gator. Keep in mind, the rumbling gets amplified travelling across the water.

It’s about time for some payback…

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5 Responses to “The Sounds of Love”

  1. vwbug Says:
    April 11th, 2012 at 4:48 am

    The one that scares me is when I hear little gators croaking. I can haul when I hear that.

  2. Ladybug Crossing Says:
    April 11th, 2012 at 7:16 am

    I definitely think it’s time for some payback…
    xo
    LBC

  3. diamond dave Says:
    April 11th, 2012 at 8:53 am

    Thought for a moment that this was going to be a TMI post, with the title followed by, “BR and I FINALLY were able to go on our anniversary date…”

    Alligators mating? Yecchh. Leave our grandparents and inlaws out of it…

  4. pam Says:
    April 11th, 2012 at 4:53 pm

    That sounds much more intimidating that it actually is, so I can understand how you could believe their lies… but be sure and tape the playback so we can point and laugh… ;)

  5. sticks Says:
    April 11th, 2012 at 5:32 pm

    That is too funny. Yep, its payback time.

    When my youngest son was about 4, he heard a noise. My mom’s boyfriend at the time told him it was a bear in the woods behind my mom’s house. After that, my poor son thought it was a bear every time he heard a chainsaw.

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