Outside Carolina Beach Food Lion on Saturday

The area was very crowded with constant sounds, no silence at all in the time I listened. I was intense. There was the continuous sound of cars speeding past on the street nearby, the low hum of the water and soda machines and the wind blowing. Cars entering the parking lot and parking had a slower sound than the cars on the road and some of them thumped with music. There were car doors banging shut, cars starting and the beep of cars being locked at intervals, along with occasional horn honking and brakes squealing. The sound of people talking and their footsteps would fade in and out and they came closer. The footsteps ranged from heavy thuds to flip-flops (mostly flip-flops). The noise of carts crashing and being pushed across the parking lot was fairly constant. One child was crying and a couple minute later another child was humming. There were a couple of sounds I may have missed if I had not been listening; a trash bag rustling in the wind and the water dispenser filling a jug. There were sporadic noises that included the clang of keys hitting the ground and the thump of a soda can dispensing and the bell on the door of the shop next door.