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Most noises in church don’t bug me. I’ve heard ‘em all. People snoring. Babies crying. Rain falling. Crickets chirping. Sound systems popping. Toilets flushing. Offering and communion plates dropping. Sirens screaming, and cars speeding by outside. Kids yelling, and cell phones ringing inside. Hymnals hitting a bunch of piano keys. Organists standing up on a foot full of bass notes. Coughing. Sneezing. Blowing. Laughing. Crying. Shouting. Whispering. Gasping. Yawning. Clapping. I’ve even witnessed a during-the-sermon, pew-to-pulpit, heated argument between parishioner and preacher (the parishioner won!), and I’ve refereed several fights between husbands and wives both before and after church meetings. Tacky stuff.