Until the late 1990s gas-truck drivers alerted their customers by loudly honking or clanging keys against the cylinders. After complaints about the noise, the government and the fuel syndicate agreed to replace the honking with “a relaxing kind of music”, says Hussein Allaboun, head of the Energy and Minerals Regulatory Commission.
The gas-truck music is “the second biggest melody after the call to prayer”, says Johnny Amore, an artist who got the tune changed temporarily in 2009 under an-funded project. The sound sometimes irritates Ali Hassan al-Beer, a bookseller. Still, he believes it is a beautiful symbol, now part of tradition. When the music plays, “the kids come out onto the streets and yell ‘Gas! Gas!’,” he says. “It became part of our daily routine.
Don't muezzins call for prayer at dawn?
Least of our problems in Jordan lol
That and oddly volatile port side warehouses just across the heights.
Salvadorian bread sellers, water sellers and garbage trucks are likewise...
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Here in Brazil it is the egg truck that wakes us up in the morning. rsrsrs
Same is true in Brazil. Gas trucks have been ruining Fur Elise for the children for decades now. beethoven250
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