Living in close quarters with others often gives you little tidbits about yourself that you would miss otherwise. For example, I now know that I snore very loudly but only after a night of heavy drinking. I used to snore a lot but I thought the problem went away after I had my tonsils removed a few years ago.
Snoring was a fixture of my house growing up. For years my father snored very loudly, so loudly in fact that my other had to wear earplugs to bed. For decades my mother wore wax earplugs every night, then every once in a while would get some gadget to try and solve the problem in a different way. For example I remember she once bought a device that he would wear on his wrist and anytime a loud enough sound occurred it would vibrate. Apparently he just slept through the vibration and my mother’s woes continued.
Mind you this was not light snoring. It could be heard throughout pretty much the entire house. To give you all a sense of scale I will tell you one of the definitive field trip stories of my life. When I was in 5th grade my class had a sleepover at the Minnesota zoo. The boys slept in the aquarium area while the girls slept in the dolphin area, my father volunteered to be one of the chaperones. At night 5 of the boys in my class woke up very scared because they mistook his snoring for an animal on the loose. That was the last school field trip my father chaperoned.
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