Grunting

[Striking]

Do you recall at what age you started grunting or making noise whenever you stand or sit? I do it even when there is no pain or relief from doing either thing. I laugh about it sometimes. Why do we start doing that? Is there some secret mental compartment that opens when we reach middle age that tells us to do this? Are we like sea turtles that return to the beach we hatched at 20 years before?

 

[Human Ex Machinae]

I think I've always done it a little bit, but it's just in the last few years that it's become a major form of self expression for me. At work there's this one machine that needs to be switched off at the end of the day. In order to hit the button I have to hunch down really low, bend over till my nose is practically touching the floor and then twist my self under some shelving. The noises I make while doing that are pretty interesting. Not sounds that humans normally make:p