Clang Clang

There's a regular clanging outside, like someone might be pounding a post to play horseshoes at. But probably not.

Maybe it's just a kid who found a piece of metal and is hammering at it. It doesn't sound loud enough or authoritative enough to be workmen.

Although it does sound like what it would sound like if you were out there doing vandalism to a fire hydrant. But that never happens.

I'm always amazed at vandals. They pick on the stuff down here, normal stuff at our level. But even though a fire hydrant is at our level, no one ever does anything to those. It's because we've seen them so regularly in our lives that we don't even see them.

Fire hydrants are not subject to vandalism because of familiarity, flying below the radar.