Why is there so much yelling up and down stairs and in between rooms in Canada? Does it happen in other countries as well? I can understand that slightly less refined people will yell from one end of the house to the other, but even when I visited a very polite and proper family who was otherwise very soft spoken, the phone might ring, the caller was looking to talk to someone upstairs and then the mom would not go half way up the stairs to tell the person that someone was calling, but would just stand right next to the phone and scream the persons name!remember we had to re-do it about five times, because everytime we were half way through, an irritated mother would yell from upstairs "What is that horrendous noise!". This would of course be recorded onto the tape, and so we would have to sigh and start over.
Is that considered polite?
Anyway, that was just an aside. Once your mom wrecked the recording and you had to start over, did she yell again once the horrendous noise had to start over again? Besides, did she understand when you explained just what the noise was?
If someone asked "what is that noise?" in a hostile manner, I would reply (provided that it was not my own mother, of course) "Don't ask questions if you won't understand the answer!"
