This is some carbon monoxide meter that came plugged into the wall when we bought our house. We never really knew what it did, but knew that we wanted our kids to stay alive so we kept it plugged into the wall, in the middle of the hallway. There it stayed until our youngest started to crawl and walk and pull things out of wall outlets. Then we moved it into my office where it would at least keep me safe from deadly chemicals… or whatever. Occasionally one of the kids would walk by and push a button on it causing it to beep really loud and it would take a good ten minutes pushing different buttons to get it to stop making my ears bleed.
Yesterday Cooper figured out a way to make it beep and stay beeping every ten seconds or so. Kristin and I tried for about an hour pushing different button combinations to get the noise to stop, but since this thing came with the house, it did not come with instructions. Finally we resolved to just putting the thing in the garage where we could barely hear the beeping and figured eventually the batteries would run out and we would be free.
This morning I walked downstairs to get breakfast started for the boys and heard a constant, high pitched screeching noise coming from the garage. I knew something had to be done so I went to the garage, picked it up and threw it on the ground. The beeping instantly stopped as pieces of plastic and wires flew all over the garage. I realized that there were probably more civil ways to handle something like this but at least the noise had ended.
When Kristin came down stairs minutes later, I confessed what I had done and told her that the meter thing that we had no idea what it did was smashed all over the garage, but the noise had stopped. Kristin started to laugh, looked at me and said,
“I was thinking about doing the same thing, but didn’t want to look like a crazy person.”
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lol! That was smooth!
That’s the only way to handle that situation. Well Done!
I went through the same exact thing. You are not alone. haha.
There should be some easier way to make carbon monoxide meters less annoying. I mean, if it comes down to smashing them into pieces… there’s something wrong with the design of the confounded contraption.
uh…don’t those things beep when carbon monoxide is present? maybe that’s why it was beeping, and now you are going to die. just a thought.
Haha. That’s funny.
Dude, that’s hilarious! Your wife is awesome.
Your life is basically a video game.
That’s my boy !!!!!
Love you, son…..Mom
Although there’s many different ways to handle that situation, I’m glad you picked this one, much more entertaining. What’s going on in your house, all these technical problems. Hmmmm… I don’t know Brody, but some thing very suspicious is going on. J/K, it’s probably just nothing, I said probably.
Dude - hope your fire alarm doesn’t start acting up next.
Actually, I panicked when I first saw the picture - after your earlier posts, I was pretty sure you’d decided to solve your Apple power supply problem with a 9 volt.
So my influence on you hasnt wore off yet. (remember when i threw my skate board into your shins, that sucked for you)
Have you seen Garden State?
My favorite line: “Honey, don’t stay in the house too long today. I unplugged the carbon monoxide detector because it was just beeping all night.”
Sounds like a bad week for electronics in the Harper household.
Dude! You’ve got a son named Cooper? Me too!
You’ve spent too much time with the Fee boys? Me too!
You’ve got an awesome wife? Me too!
You had 1,500 hits the other day? Still waiting for that one…
Lol!!!
I completely understand…thanks for the laughs, Brody & Kristin!