Alarming Situation
Coming home
from shopping and chores with Mrs. C, I entered the house deftly unlocking the
door while propping open the storm door with my butt and holding packages in
one hand and a heavy plastic bag of groceries in my teeth.
Beep, beep, beep
Crap, the
damn alarm, I hate that thing, but Mrs. C insists on setting it even if we are
away for just a minute. Granted the
house was once broken into. The burglars ignored the alarm-warning sign out
front and the alarm siren when they broke in.
They only scurried away through the back door without any loot when Mrs.
C startled them when she started to enter the home.
Not sure how
good the damn thing is in deterring professionals, but still the alarm must be
used.
Anyway
Beep, beep, beep.
I entered
the code. Oops, punched the wrong
number. I reentered the correct code and
the beep, beep, beep stopped. Thirty
seconds later all hell broke loose!
Lights
flashed, alarm rang out
EEOW, EEOW, EEOW…
Mrs. C was following
me in the door,
“Get the phone, the company will be
calling soon, the password is Brick-a-brack,
I’ll shut down the alarm.”
EEOW, EEOW, EEOW…
The phone
rang,
“Yes, I accidently hit the wrong code
and the alarm went off…What? Hagy…H A G Y.
Yes, I know the owner’s name is Barboe, that’s my wife…Because she didn’t
want to go through the hassle of changing her name…no, I don’t mind, and”
EEOW, EEOW, EEOW…
“could
you just shut the thing off?”... “What?
You have to send me to customer service? But you called because of the alarm,
why can’t you shut it down?”
EEOW,
EEOW, EEOW…
“Ok, ok transfer me.”
EEOW, EEOW, EEOW…
“Hello, yes, my alarm went off
accidentally and we can’t shut it down” … “Hagy” … “Yes, I know, she won’t
change her name” … “no I don’t really mind, I do mind this alarm!”
EEOW, EEOW, EEOW…
“What, I can’t hear you with this
alarm, please talk to my wife.”
“Joe, go upstairs and get the fob out
of the drawer, we have to hit a reset.”
“You know I’ll never find that thing,
I can’t find a water glass on my night table.”
EEOW, EEOW, EEOW…
“I’ll get it! Talk to the service
lady.”
EEOW, EEOW, EEOW…
“Yes, my wife is getting it now” … “Barboe”
… “Hagy”… “I KNOW!! She doesn’t want to change it. OK she reset the system” …
“Karen, she says punch in the code again.”
“Karen, she says punch in the code again.”
EEOW, EEOW, EE.
“Finally,” … “Yes, it stopped, thank
you”… “I know, maybe I should change my name!”
I hate the
damn alarm!
Maybe you need to get a dog... ;)
ReplyDeleteA BIG dog.
ReplyDeleteHow do you turn off a dog?
DeleteTake it to the vet?? Snip, snip.. :)
DeleteBwahahahahahahahaha. I'm worn out just reading this.
ReplyDeleteWe set our alarm no matter how long we are going to be gone. I live in a high crime area.
Have a fabulous day and rest of the week. 😎
I felt your pain, and your wife's pain as she fought the alarm battle. Having an alarm is a good idea, esp. if you have been invaded already. Getting a dog, a big dog, might be a good idea.
ReplyDeleteWe don't have an alarm..don't tell anyone. Anyway, we do have Arnie the slowest dog in the world. The only thing that makes him worthwhile as a crime stopper is his little "problem"...he pees on people if they pet him when they walk in the door. We've figured out how to avoid this "problem". But I won't tell it here since it's my only defense against being robbed. Happy New Year to you and Mrs. B!
ReplyDeleteHa Ha. And it doesn't help to have the code stuck beside the alarm either. Very handy for criminals that is.
ReplyDeleteWe installed an alarm one year in a house where my son wasn't living, but he would visit often. One day he visited while we were out and entered through his old bedroom window, because he'd misplaced his door key. He didn't know about the alarm, which was new, the alarm went off of course, so he let himself out the front door and just sat there waiting for the police and us to show up.
No alarm here, i had enough of that growing up. If i lived in a worse area, i might rethink that.
ReplyDeleteDang! It would be easier to be a burglar than to reset that alarm.
ReplyDeleteOther readers have said it all - and made me laugh. I felt your pain, though, as well as admiring your wife's rational thinking. I'm thankful I don't have an alarm. Didn't need one when the dogs were here but now there's only a cat and I dare anyone to cross him!
ReplyDeleteHave you had the alarm go off during power outages? That is fun also.
ReplyDeleteWe had one of those once....and then we got rid of it.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know you have to get the alarm company to switch off the alarm. Ours is normally switched off by the intruders as they leave.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Boy have you talked me out of an alarm system. I do have Callie who would never attack a stranger but will friendly---annoy them into leaving. I have a hard time getting friends to stay.
ReplyDeleteSecurity alarms: Keeping homes safe from, um, their owners since inception ..... ;-)
ReplyDeleteWe live in an insanely low crime area. At least we have been, but times are a-changing. I figure we'll need an alarm soon, probably about the time we are a hair too senile to handle one ....
I wonder if a cat would work, instead of that BIG dog...?
ReplyDeleteWe’ve had alarm fun too. The caller couldn’t understand our southern accents.
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