As Amanda and I were gathering up our clothes and left-over food from the her Uncle's pool/barbecue 4th of July party, I found myself alone with 5 older women, I don't say older to imply "old", just not 24 - and actually the 5 are very attractive older women, I'm not just saying that, it has a little bit to do with the story.

I was helping pick up the dozens of empty beer cans and water bottles scattered in every corner of their backyard - when one of the women, Mo (not her real name, but a nick-name) said that "as a speech therapist I would like to examine your vocal folds". Here's where the above 'attractive' comment comes in, the other 4 women around myself and Mo started to "ohh & ahh" in sexual-innuendo as to what "examining" my vocal folds really meant.

I actually wasn't sure what vocal "folds" were - turns our they are just another name, a more correct name, for vocal "cords" - I had to Wiki' it.

But I asked why she was interested in my voice... I then said it obviously has something to do with it being strange and difficult to hear for people not within my two-foot bubble. But then that self-insulting remark brought on a wave of "no, you're voice is so unique...", and I again added, "unique as in hard-as-hell-to-understand", and the 5 women came back with "no, it's very husky and beautiful... you should be a singer", by now I'm probably red in the face - seeing as how I can't take a compliment to save my life and ontop of that, I was cornered by 5 women focusing exclusivly on my voice - something I'm not always positive about. So I was probably blushing - from both the "husky" remark as well as the "ohhs & ahhs" from before.

I did learn though, while on Wiki', that: a person's voice pitch is determined by the resonant frequency of their vocal folds - a average man's frequency is 125 Hz, a woman's is 210 and a child's is 300... which leads me to assume mine is probably in the 70's.

I assumed that my "deep" and difficult-to-project voice would be from under-development folds, but Amanda argued that men's voices deepen as they get older, so perhaps I have over-developed folds. Now I'm curious - I want Mo to "examine" me... or my folds.