Wed 7 Mar 2007
2:05 am: beep,… [60 seconds], beep, … [60 seconds], beep, … [60 seconds], etc.
Half asleep I wander around the house to find a stool high enough so I can reach the malfunctioning smoke detector. I press the “Test” button to see if that will make it shut up. This makes all the smoke detectors in the house go off all together. Oops. After waiting through what seemed like a whole beep cycle, there were no more beeps, so I climbed back into bed.
2:09 am: beep,… [60 seconds], beep, … [60 seconds], beep, … [60 seconds], etc.
This time I was so tired I managed to ignore it and go back to sleep. Cathy has been sleeping throughout this whole thing, too.
4:00 am: beep,… [60 seconds], beep, … [60 seconds], beep, … [60 seconds], etc.
I can no longer ignore it, so I get up again and try to figure out what is going on. I dragged our 8′, 50 pound ladder from the garage into our bedroom without turning on any lights and found a flashlight without triggering Annie into a barking frenzy. So far, so good.
I disconnected the house electricity from it. Still it did not stop.
I removed the 9 volt battery from it – and still it did not stop!
Finally I wrapped it in a towel, threw it in the closet, and went back to bed. This did the trick.
Then I lay awake for another hour.
March 7th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
That’s too funny!! Did it finally stop beeping, or will it just beep from now all the way to the dump?
March 8th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Correction…I DID hear it. In fact I heard it first! I put my head under my pillow in hopes that a)it would go away, b)it wouldn’t go away but I would no longer hear it, which would lead to c)Jerry would eventually stop snoring and hear it and I wouldn’t have to take care of it! By the looks of the 8′ ladder in our room the next morning, I think my plan worked. I love you honey!!!!!