Tag: ‘avoidance’
October 5, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Remember when I moved into my new place and the smoke detector in the unit below me kept beeping once a minute because its battery was low? You don’t? Well, here’s the link. And here’s a confession: that smoke detector has been beeping for the last three months.
Yes, I know, you all must think I am a crazy woman for letting it go on this long. The rest of you are wondering how low the battery really could be if it’s been beeping once a minute for three months (and probably longer since it was beeping before I moved in). In my defense, the beeping wasn’t that annoying. If I had the TV on or if I was listening to music, I couldn’t hear it. And even when I was lying in bed at night, it wasn’t that loud. I’ve actually gotten used to it. The only embarrassing thing has been when friends or family are over and I have to try to explain why I hadn’t stopped the beeping, which would require delving far [...]
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