Did you ever notice how your smoke detector battery needs changing at the most inconvenient times? Just a few weeks ago in the middle of the night, the smoke detector starts beeping. Of course it won't stop until someone pays attention to it. Chris has to figure out which room it is coming from and then get the ladder out. At these times you wonder, why exactly did I want tall ceilings? Luckily my wonderful hubby was here to take care of it.
Today, as I am home in between my shifts at work, guess what!! Yep another smoke detector starts beeping. Funny how it waits until Chris is back to work to do this. If it happened yesterday he would have been here to deal with it. Can it at least be one that isn't up impossibly high? Nope not even close. So I have to go get the ladder, which by the way is extremely heavy. Yes the Little Giant step ladder is impressive, but man it weighs a ton. So I drag it in the house, adjust it, climb up and twist off the cap to the smoke detector. Instead of nicely coming off it flies out of my hand and hits the floor, successfully knocking the battery out. Well not exactly the way I wanted to accomplish my mission, but at least it was done. Oh wait a minute, did it seriously just beep at me even though it is disconnected & sans battery? Yep it totally did. Great now the smoke detector is mocking me. I tried all of the buttons and knobs and it is still beeping. So I banished it to the garage as a punishment. I also put the extremely heavy ladder back where I got it, and smacked my leg on the car in the process, so you can't say I didn't try to handle it.
Appliances mock me often. They make all kinds of funny nosies, clicks & clangs. Then when I mention to it Chris, all of a sudden the appliance has decided to behave. I swear I don't make things up for him to check out, it was really behaving badly before he got home. This used to happen when I was young too, only then it was cars. I would tell my dad, he would check it out and the car would smile at me behind his back while it behaved perfectly. So not nice.
I am still counting this as a check in my column because it is quiet in here now. Yes Chris will have to finish the job when he gets home, but I at least made the effort and tried to fix it. :-)
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