Ordinarily I don't mind the sound of children playing. Ordinarily.
I don't like it so much when they scream, however. Or when they insist on shouting, even though the person they're actually speaking to is standing only three feet away — children so rarely seem to master the concept of using your indoor voice.
I have discovered today, however, that the sound of children screaming can be greatly enhanced by the sound of a lawnmower.
I've no doubt that there was nothing untoward going on, and that the children were not harmed in any way — and that probably it was even a completely different garden from which this second noise came — but my overactive imagination caused me some entertainment all the same.
