Another giggle with (or at) Dad one!

 

But it’s in my hand and I can hear it!

 

Soooo, rewind to the other Saturday – Mum and I get back to mine and the smoke alarm on the top landing is beeping intermittently and I realise it needs a new battery. Trip to local supermarket (a FIVER for a battery that I have since seen as £2.50 elsewhere or a pack of TWO for £6, annoying…) anyway – collected a yummy Chinese for dinner and it was worth it, I guess!

Then, I get in from work on the Thursday evening and I can hear beeping! Nooooo, I think to myself, not again. It didn’t sound the same, but I went up to the landing to check. Nope, coming from downstairs. Look up at one in hallway (it’s a smoke/heat alarm and has a flashing light every forty-five seconds to show it is working properly) and it is still flashing as it should, so I was thinking perhaps a spider. Ask Dad to come over as you can’t open this particular type (unlike old-style one upstairs) and I am not sure I will be strong enough to untwist it etc and been dealing with dodgy shoulder...and I want to dust/hoover/test etc and see what happens…

    He arrives, we test. It appears fine, light still flashing as it should… Mmmm. We take it down (well, after a fashion as I had to get on chair to read which way to twist as Dad couldn’t see…) and I dust, still beeping…

    At this point the beeping DOESN’T sound like it is coming from it! I say that to Dad who disagrees and I go upstairs. We hear the beep again and it ISN’T the one upstairs but it doesn’t sound like the location of the beep has moved, yet Dad is standing away from where it had been on the ceiling…

    I say: “It just doesn’t sound like it’s coming from that!”

    He replies: “But it’s in my hand and I can hear it!”

    It had beeped again by then, to which I reply:

    “Yes, I know that but it just doesn’t sound like it’s coming from it…”

    It does it again…he has it up to his ear! I repeat that it doesn’t sound like it is coming from it, and why isn’t he jumping as it’s loud if by his ear?

    He repeats: “But it’s in my hand and I can hear it!”

    I say I know that but perhaps it’s the carbon monoxide alarm – there’s one on the stair well wood alongside landing…

    I go up and listen to that. Nope, nothing. He still has the other one to his ear and still doesn’t jump when it goes off but is stilllll saying that it must be and that he can hear it!

    I THEN remember the OTHER carbon monoxide alarm in the boiler cupboard. Open door, yup…source of beep found much to his confused face as he was stillllllll staring at the smoke alarm like it WAS that!

Hilarious, I did laugh – as did Mum when I phoned to say he was on his way home!

    Anyway, it wouldn’t stop beeping despite a battery change and the one from hallway was fine in cupboard (so all was Ok – best to have two, I learnt that a while ago – that’s another story) and I have ordered a second one as I DID buy a pack of two once upon a shopping trip but I cannot find the spare!

    I have, however, decided that when the hallway one goes I will have a matching one to replace it with...when I find it!