BEEP!
You know what that means. Battery going dead in a smoke detector. There it was again.
BEEP!
That's the problem with a chirping smoke detector. You know there's gonna be another BEEP comin'. It's like waiting for the other shoe to drop. All day. Waiting for the entire inventory of a combat-boot-manufacturing factory to release one boot at a time from the top floor.
"Hey! Do you hear that? The smoke detector needs a battery."
"Oh, yeah. I don't have any batteries."
"Can you turn it off?"
"I ain't got no ladder in the house."
Pardon my almost-French, but that is one Not-Heaven of a lie! We always have a little stepladder thingy in the Mansion. My mom gave it to us. Kind of a cross between a stool and a ladder. I think it has three steps. It's metal, and folds out, with black rubber on the steps.
Farmer H must have known by my sigh and look of displeasure that I was onto him.
"Let me look in Genius's room. Maybe it's in there."
He walked over and opened the door.
"Nope. Maybe it's downstairs."
Farmer H took a half-hearted step towards the basement.
"Just forget it!"
"I'll get batteries, and do it when I get home."
"Sure. Can you at least close the door so I don't have to hear it so loud?"
"Yeah. I can do that."
I'm pretty sure Farmer H will "forget" to pick up batteries today. I'm also pretty sure he will find that little stepladder downstairs in his workshop.
2 comments:
It might be a good idea to always keep spare batteries handy, then he has no excuse for not changing them right away.
River,
We have a battery drawer in the kitchen that holds spare batteries. Farmer H did not even go into the kitchen to look. Just said he didn't have the right batteries. I guess I can believe that. Nobody ever told me we were out of the 9 volt rectangular batteries that the smoke detectors need. You'd think it might get mentioned when the last 9 volt was used...
Now that the boys are not living here, we don't have a huge battery consumption as when they were powering assorted devices and toys with them. I can't buy them if I don't know we need them.
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