I purposely moved into a very rural part of Dorset to get away from people and noise. Apart from very occasional distant traffic noise and a local flying instructor who must use the village as a navigation marker when teaching pupils, the only noise we get is birdsong, wind sounds and hens clucking. So image my distress at finding out I'd imported noise into the area 
The house is a cacophony of bleeps and buzzes as appliance after appliance signals to the world that it wants attention - the microwave, washing machine, dishwasher, oven, breadmaker, freezer, kettle, drier, etc, etc all bleep several times during their cycles and most of them sound identical to each other...
I can be sat in the garden enjoying the sunshine with a good book and a cold cider when some annoying bleeping sound wafts out of the open window. If I've been left temporarily in charge of domestic duties I then have to abandon my rural bliss and head inside to search for which bit of technology is demanding my presence.
If manufacturers made the sounds different to each other, or allowed you to program ringtones as with a mobile phone then life would be a little easier, particularly as it took me 10 minutes to track down a bleep this morning which turned out to be the aforementioned mobile phone wanting recharging!
There's also the safety issue - the Fire detectors and the Carbon Monoxide detectors also bleep when their batteries are getting low... If people can make a talking GPS and a car that nags me to put on my seatbelt, shut an open door, etc then why can't they make appliances that do anything other than bleep?
Anyhow, got to go. Something in the house is bleeping....
