The other night I'm in the midst of a great night's sleep when a beep interrupts the bliss. Then, what sounded like a voice talking. OUTLOUD! In my house! In the fog of sleep and semi-consciousness I end up dozing off…for about 10 minutes, then the beep and voice. Okay, now I'm awake and I still can't figure out why.
Sitting up on the side of the bed a light flashes in the living room where we the computer is. It is the screen "awakening" too. Now I'm a little scared and definitely wishing I were asleep. Then, there's the beep and the voice!
It sounded a little muffled so I'm thinking that it is someone on a loud speaker outside. So, I walk/stumble to the front door to look, like a good neighbor. As I get the door the voice speaks above me and it is clear it is not outside but inside and she said, "Low battery."
Finally, it sinks in that the feminine voice is coming from one of our fire alarms. (I don't know if you seen the video that shows sleeping kids responding to fire alarms but it is alarming how they sleep through the beeping and tend to wake to the voice.) We now know we have the voice but I would rather not awaken to it again.
As I began to settle back down, my mind slowly processing the events I thought, "why is it that the battery never goes low in the daytime…?"
YIKES!!!!
You should meet our neighbors. On the weekend, they leave town and they always forget to turn off their alarm clock. So… the alarm starts going off at 6 AM (waking me up, and of course I have to wake Trey up so he can get mad with me) and then stops going off at 8 AM. He goes back to sleep. I go to Madeline’s room where it’s not quite as loud.
It happened again. I guess the battery we replaced went dead because it was one of those we had to dig through everything and find. Well we begin hearing voices again around 4am, not pm. To be sure which fire alarm I go upstairs and wait for it to say something again. Ten minutes…15 minutes…20 minutes… Finally I go back to bed. Soon as I get still, the voice. Back up the stairs I go and finally after figuring out which alarm I get back to bed.