Tick, tick, tick…

It was approximately 8 A.M. on a weekday. I was in my kitchen, figuring out what I should eat for breakfast. I begin to take out all the things I usually put into a fruit smoothie – almond milk, protein powder, frozen fruit – when I noticed the ticking.

Tick, tick, tick…

My eyes wandered over to the clock affixed to my kitchen wall; certainly, that was the source of the sound. I walked up to it and held my ear close before remembering that said clock has not functioned properly since the day it was put up (that’s a long story, one that hopefully ends in me repairing it eventually). I could rule out the clock.

Tick, tick, tick…

It sounded like a small winged insect, maybe one that was drawn to light, repeatedly flying into my overhead kitchen light. I squinted up, trying to avoid getting blinded by the brightness, as I attempted to locate a flying insect. I couldn’t see anything.

Tick, tick, tick…

I was getting annoyed now. Where was this coming from? Was I imagining it? I felt like a character from the old Harry Potter Puppet Pals YouTube video that was popular when I was a teenager. If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth a watch for a little giggle, but basically it features main characters from the Harry Potter series goofing about and singing their names while Professor Snape attempts to identify what is making a mysterious ticking noise in the background.

It was only after this silly video popped into my mind that it dawned on me…

…the ticking was coming from my pod. I’d picked up my PDM and started a bolus before I went into the kitchen. I just completely forgot that I’d done so.

Tick, tick, tick…beep!

Soon after this realization struck me, I started laughing at myself, and then my pod declared that the bolus was finished delivering with a single “beep”. I found it funny how something that I do multiple times each day still has the ability to confuse all common sense out of me. My pod makes ticking sounds, sometimes one or two at a time, and other times a series of dozens, all the time. More often than not, I’m oblivious to the sound, and I really only ever tune in to ensure that a bolus is getting delivered or whenever it’s reaaaaaaally quiet all around me and it’s the only sound to be heard. But apparently, it can still catch me off-guard to the point that I forget it exists.

At least I found out the source of the ticking, though.