Comments on: 3 AM

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:25:58 +0000

p.s. I like…NO I LOVE Jay’s answer. Take a hammer get rid of them all!! Dying in a fire is much preferred to this torture!

Kevin

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:22:47 +0000

So TRUE. I hate them!!!!!!!!!1

By: Dudley

Dudley — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:50:02 +0000

Flatsman,

Dogs belong outside.

By: FlatsMan

FlatsMan — Fri, 15 May 2009 01:58:58 +0000

You are such a wimp.

Try waking up every other night as your chocolate lab hurls the contents of his stomach on the bedroom carpet. Having eaten sundry wood chips, plants, grass, socks, toilet rolls, soap, etc. in the 22 seconds you were distracted from “lab watch”. Friends tell us he’ll grow out of it in about 2 – 3 years. BTW we tried a crate, guess what, he ate most of it and yes, hurled.

By: Jay Peitzer

Jay Peitzer — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:57:48 +0000

I have a sure fire way to deal with a smoke detector with a dead battery. I start with the first smoke detector I find and remove it completely then go to the next one and remove it completely I do this for every smoke detector in the house. I then take them to a safe quiet place and ,not caring which one is chirping, whack them with a hammer until no noise is coming from any of them. I then take the smashed to smithereens pieces and deposit them in a trash container. I only needed to do this once and I’ve never been awakened again. Plus I had the added fun of smashing the stupid things to bits. Frankly I’d rather die in a fire then deal with them. They are near the top of my list of inventions in search of a problem right along with the SHAMWOW. The only time the things go off at all is when the battery goes dead. Now you tell me what good is something that only tells you when it’s not working. Or goes off when you’re cooking. I know when I’m cooking…..I don’t need to be told.

By: BikeCopVT

BikeCopVT — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:39:03 +0000

Fatty, you’re lucky. Here is why. When the battery goes in the detector I have in my living room not only do I have to get up at 3:00 am (b/c that happens at my house too), but I have to go out to the garage and get a ladder. Yep it’s approximately 15 feet up. Way beyond dragging a chair over.

Thanks for the laugh.

Win Susan!
LiveStrong

By: dougg

dougg — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:15:55 +0000

Fatty… Your right in that case. I didn’t know they were hard wired. When you had the battery in backwards and the door closed the alarm is expecting power from the battery. Since it wasn’t getting any… “chirp!”
I’ll have to remember that the next time we get a call in the middle of the night for one of these units!
Thanks for the training lesson!

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:03:01 +0000

That’s OK – 90% of fires start in the middle of a hallway anyway (at least 90%.)

By: Kerri

Kerri — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:56:13 +0000

I can’t believe no one commented with the easiest way to remember to change the batteries in your smoke detectors: do it when you change your clocks in the spring and fall. Of course, this only works if you observe Daylight Savings Time, but since that’s most of us…

By: Wes

Wes — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:09:36 +0000

This is why God invented baseball bats…