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I see the top few comments talking about motorcycles, leaf blowers, and automobiles.

My pet peeve are jets. Living within ~5 miles of an air force base, or any major airport, is terrible. Everyone stops what they're doing for the for whatever duration a plane is in the area. Local and state politicians are powerless to do anything because of "the jobs".

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That's a good one. Mine is helicopters. Military Blackhawks and a Sikorsky known as Marine-1 at times, to be specific.

I live on the flight path from the White House to Camp David and they practice this flight multiple times per week. It makes sense because they need a full roster of people so they can provide minimum 2-deep 24 hour coverage and the folks need to be able to do it in their sleep in any weather conditions.

It's still jarring to hear a trio of Blackhawks fly past me at a relatively low altitude.

imagine adding flying cars to the mix! it'd be hard to escape.

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