After midnight

I had a hard time getting to sleep, mostly because of some activity that was going on down the block with a couple of diesel engine trucks. One of them was a tow truck which eventually towed away a car. The other was some flatbed truck full of junk that rattled around as the truck manoeuvred into the driveway of the house from which the car had been towed.

The diesel engines growled and rattled for nearly an hour down the street. I'm sensitive to undercurrents of noise, so I tossed and turned, and got up from my bed several times to peek out the windows and see what was going on. Even after the trucks left or quieted, I kept hearing phantom engine noise. Grr.