For me, it was while trying to pre-board an overcrowded flight to Miami with a noisy baby in my arms, only to be ordered back in line by a curt agent.
And towns as as large as neighbouring Griffith, a busy hub which appeared to be full of vim, vigour and young men in noisy cars doing "mainies" on a Sunday night.
"O thou who are close to God, be the middle man between us and God," bellowed the preacher, prompting a noisy chorus of tearful sobs from the crowd in Jamkaran, a 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-oldskirts of the holy city of Qom, home to Iran'shrinegions ruling esthelishment.
Mawle offered to show me his grouse moor, and so we clambered into a noisy Kawasaki all-terrain vehicle driven by Neil Taylor, Mawle's Scottish gamekeeper.
A handful of nationalist MPs from the more distant Celtic parts of Britain have traditionally been noisy but not important.
In the same way, his art is one of engaged observation rather than noisy propaganda.
Every night at that point, give or take 10 minutes, she'd give a noisy yawn and trot happily upstairs.
Or take "vibrant", increasingly an estate-agent spin for noisy areas with a certain kind of cultural consumption.
I meet Nettle at a noisy student restaurant in Newcastle.
Particularly significant to Nice's thought process is the suggestion that home births offer a more conducive, less stressful environment than a noisy hospital ward, where infection is often more difficult to contain and where stretched doctors are all too keen on epidurals and forceps.
Nice may be the unofficial capital of the Côte d'Azur but it tends to get overshadowed by its noisy, glamorous neighbour Cannes – and more recently Marseille, which is European Capital of Culture 2013.
