Flourescent light noise (shoplights etc) still drive
me wild. I do not and never could understand why
anyone would use these devices in their home-- esp. in
a basement shop with low ceilings which brings the sound
that much closer and louder. :-/

At my fathers house and in shop jobs I had when younger
I'd ask, "Can't you _hear_ that?"

"Hear what?" was the usual response.