I am simply amazed at how many kitchen appliances beep at you when they are finished doing what you asked them to do: washer, dryer, microwave, stove and coffee maker. They all have their own little sequence and sound but after a while they all sound alike to me - and then they sound familiar - and then I don't notice them at all. Not good! Things will burn that way.

Not only do they beep when they finish, the stove beeps when it is finished preheating, when the timer goes off!

Beep. Beep.

P. S. And then there is the alarm clock beep, but we don't want to talk about that.