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Old 08-25-2011, 01:44 AM
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So I'm sitting in my bedroom listening to music and I hear this really loud clicking noise coming from across the room. I turn off the radio and it is still there. Being scared, I grab my squier strat (closest form of self defensive device and a crap instrument) and walk towards the door. I get the strat ready to swing, grab the doorknob *clicking got faster* took a deep breath and swung the door open to see, nothing. There was a Teddy bear sitting down the hallway but otherwise nothing and I don't think that Teddy is trying to kill me.

Is a clicking doorknob (btw it was a steady tempo until I grabbed it) normal, or should I be throwing all of the stuffed animals in the house into a wood chipper then pour holy water onto the remains?
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Old 08-25-2011, 01:53 AM
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Well....lets see here..

1. Don't drink pepsi late at night.
2. If said stuffed Teddy was after you..what makes you think a Squier would be usefull? you've seen those movies..you're a dead man.
3. just repeat this , "The power of Christ compells you!"
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Old 08-25-2011, 05:03 AM
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I would say you have a bug in your doorknob.

Your best bet is to just move and abandon the house.
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Old 08-25-2011, 05:18 AM
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They joke most drummers are dumb as doorknobs, and your doorknob was knockin out a steady tempo... was it a drummer possibly reincarnated as a doorknob? Is this a sign? Someone hold me for I am afraid.
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Old 08-25-2011, 05:35 AM
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Probably vibration from something. Any trucks going by? Trains? Earthquakes??
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Old 08-25-2011, 07:16 AM
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Old 08-25-2011, 09:33 AM
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Your house is spoked man.
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Probably vibration from something. Any trucks going by? Trains? Earthquakes??
No earthquakes, I live in the middle of nowhere so no trains or trucks late at night.

The only thing I had to drink was tea, and chicken broth from my soup at dinner.... and the reason I grabbed the guitar was in case it was someone outside my door making the clicking noises (I don't have a knife or guns or anything:/ ) and after seeing that zombie movie, I've always wanted to knock someone out with a stringed instrument

I don't know any drummers that can hold a steady tempo for that long, so it couldnt be a reincarnated drummer haunting me....
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Pressure changes in the house from an open window will cause doors and doorknobs to make rhythmic noises.
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Old 08-25-2011, 10:27 AM
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Since few things would make your dorrknob click steadily, you probably also have no rhythm.
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Old 08-25-2011, 10:28 AM
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were you fapping at the time?
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Old 08-25-2011, 10:38 AM
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Windows were open on both sides of the door, so pressure change is the likely answer haha.

And no, I was not fapping at the time:P

I'm still gonna get rid of that Teddy bear that is sitting in the hallway though....

Now my only dilemma is the llama making screeching noises at night and the blonde creature that roams the house at certain hours of the day looking for food >:| (they call it my sister but I call BS)
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Old 08-25-2011, 10:51 AM
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Sounds like a sticky spring mechanism dude, or it might be a door of perception.....ooooooohh
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Old 08-25-2011, 10:53 AM
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So are his bike wheels. Coincidence?
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I'm more curious as to why you have a teddy bear and what was it doing in the hall?
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I'm more curious as to why you have a teddy bear and what was it doing in the hall?
Stalking him, Waiting for the opportunity to strike.
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