A Senior moment, or just plain daft?

You were being a good neighbour - nothing wrong in that.

I stayed In a hotel room and I kept hearing a sort of whoosh sound about every half hour but it only went off once so not enough time to follow the noise. Eventually I found one of those air fresheners that shoots out a fragrance on a timer hidden in the back of a wardrobe, I thought I was going mad!

I volunteered working in our local hospice shop. One day the fire alarm went off and I checked the building and couldn't find any obvious problems. Being super efficient I phoned the head office and reported a faulty alarm.
They sent a maintenance man and he searched the building for the alarm noise. Half an hour later he traced it to a bag of clothes and found a toy buzzing away which really sounded like a fire alarm.
Red faces all around but a very annoyed maintenance man was very nasty about stupid women who had no better things to do but waste his time.
How the hell was I supposed to know? Men!??

downtoearth how funny! Thank you for sharing that, I haven't laughed so much in ages!!

Of course you were Cherry

. I was just thinking Alarm clock Roses

Haha! Sadly no, never had one of those ( DH is still in full working order)

If roses doesn't tell us then we will guess it to be what we're all thinking it is!!

Some years aggo, an elderly mother of a friend was getting upset and really worried about a continuous beeping in her little bungalow, so she called friend, her three children and I, as well as her care lady to investigate, She was convinced the sound was coming from a pot plant (!) .. We found nothing but could hear the beeping ! In the end she called the council who owned the retirement bungalow and after they called the electrician they found the source = the warning sound of the battery getting low in he recently installed smoke alarm !! I guess no one thought to tell her about this when they installed it !

I had a burglar alarm in my house in the UK ,,,which continuously went off whilst I was on holiday, My neighbour who was looking after the house could find no problem, so called an electrician ,,,who found a spider walking across the PIR !!,,,,

Would wear on a lanyard

My husband and I took the two grandchildren on holiday in our town caravan. We got to the site, stretched our legs then I heard this alarm type noise. Thought nothing of it until we opened the caravan door...the noise was horrendous! We ruled out the fire akarm. We had had this caravan for about 18 months and don't remember any other alarm being in its specification. We thought the ear splitting noise was coming from somewhere near the tv cable cupboard. But why, how? DH started to take the tv Ariel supply and boarding apart. Tested with his thingamajig. We're were tearing our hair out. The noise, really was ear splitting it was very difficult to spend time inside the caravan. We were getting fed up, the DGC were getting bored. I decided to get a board game out to try and keep them entertained. The noise got louder...taking all the games and books out I found the culprit. A few years ago I was given a personal alarm that one would where on a lanyard. somehow it had made its way into the bottom of this cupboard and somehow managed to switch itself on.

After a couple of paracetamol each, awning left to the next day DH finally calmed down having thrown the cause of all this commotion onto the ground and stamped on it...you know bloody thing didn't go off!

Same happened to us with a smoke detector. It kept on going off, so threw it out (into the garage with thoughts of getting our money back). Went out for the day and came home to an alarm going off - it was the smoke detector in the garage. It could have been going all day! Did get a replacement one which has worked perfectly for 10 years.

But it might be a good idea to check the battery date - it does work as OH burnt the toast the other week!

More than once have I set off the smoke alarm at work. Within 2 minutes the works fire service were up in the office.

Once was the toaster - probably full of crumbs which had been toasted too often.

The other was when I microwaved a potato - used to catering for the whole family, I set the (single!) potato at 12 minutes - it was black in the middle and already glowing red when the alarm went off.

Another time when there was a real fire in the factory below, the whole of the staff were out in the yard and some had already smoked half a cigarette before the fire engines (works fire brigade and town fire brigade) finally bothered to trundle along.

More or less the same thing, we heard a smoke alarm (battery running down)in the house, listened under each one, and couldnt detect which one was bleeping, driving us mad, DH took out the battery from the one we suspected was bleeping, every now and then, the mystery noise came, ( they never bleep when standing under them) very frustrated, I looked through cupboards for ages, when suddenly the noise came from a drawer,at the back,there was an old smoke alarm hubby had meant to throw away! so out with the battery, and threw the thing away, then a few choice words with my DH.

Roses a new game!

First question: Are batteries involved?

Second question: may be kept in bedside drawer?

Anybody want to ask Roses
Third question?

We had a burglar alarm and smoke alarm installed, both linked to a central monitoring system that automatically informed the appropriate emergency service if they went off.

DS (early 20s), home alone, decided to grill some sausages for supper - and forgot about them, but was, of course reminded of them when the smoke alarm went off. After much opening of doors and flappings the alarm switched off and he sat down and ate his, rather burnt, sausages.

The next thing was a ring on the door bell. DS opened door to find a fire engine and full team of firemen on doorstep. He explained sheepishly what had happened and that he didn't know about connection to central station. Whereupon firemen asked to see the burnt sausages and he had, even more sheepishly to admit he had eaten them.

The smoke alarm no longer links to a monitoring service!

While on the subject of alarms I wonder if this is a common problem, My fire alarm was beeping so I opened up the casing to change the battery and it had written on the inside renew before 2017 ... I put new battery in and now it constantly alarms .... now I have removed battery and need to buy a new alarm, I did not realise that there was a " use by date on them" so please check yours in case of a emergency

Our garage is attached to the house with a door via a passageway into the kitchen. I once reversed the car into the garage as I was loading something heavy into the boot to take to work The exhaust fumes must have triggered the carbon monoxide alarm in the kitchen but I didnt put two and two together and rushed off to work instructing DH, who was still at home, to sort it out (I was doing a big presentation at work and was very stressed )He called out British Gas to look at the boiler ...fortunately we had a service contract .They of course found no problem and were mystified .It was only later we worked out what had happended ...

On a more personal note....This morning I needed to loo. Our downstairs loo has an automatic extractor, quite noisy. As I sat trying to 'go' each time I managed there was a humming noise. This happened each time. I was worried that it could be blood pressure or some other problem. As I finally left the cloakroom my DH called down 'I've just vacuumed the landing!'

How funny. We were in the garden one day and heard our neighbours smoke alarm. She was away so my husband peeked through her window. All seemed to be in order. We were about to call fire brigade when he followed to sound to her wheelie bin. She had replaced her alarm (because it didn't work!)

I am about to admit to something I have never divulged before. My partner and I were in transit in the middle of a two week holiday and stayed overnight in this hotel. We were really tired and went to bed early. At about 2 in the morning an alarm sounded very loudly IN OUR ROOM. We both lept out of bed, still half asleep, grabbed a towel each and started wafting the alarm (like I would if the alarm went off at home because of burnt toast) hoping to stop it before it woke the rest of the hotel - it being our fault...somehow. Then there was a knock on the room door asking us to go downstairs and meet in the lobby. Ahah a fire drill. Pity nobody thought to tell us.

We were sent one of those cards and it dropped down behind a fitted cupboard in the kitchen! Aghhhh.

(tip off post - they are supposed to be good to put in mole runs.....)

One Christmas we where sent a Christmas card with a recording of we wish you a merry Christmas that activated when the card opened .Only problem was that it got stuck and kept playing.My Godmother had sent the card and would have been upset if we had taken down, my husband was so sick of it he ripped the little box out and threw into the garden,unfortunately it landed on the conservatory roof of a very curmudgeonly neighbour next door,followed by a heavy snowfall,the b****y thing still kept playing .We could see and hear our neighbour looking for the source which must have driven him mad as it finally wound down after three weeks, he had a 6ft fence so we never saw him in the garden,we kept quiet ,we where too scared to own up he was such a miserable old bugger..well he was old to us he was in his 50's and we in our 30's sorry George

My father (in his seventies) was talked into buying a really snazzy - and expensive - fire and monoxide alarm at a show by an attractive young lady. Mum was furious that he'd been taken in by a pretty face and they nearly came to blows over it. The offending alarm was thrown into an old chest in the corner and forgotten. She refused to have it on the wall. It took them a couple of days and near divorce to find what the beeping was when the battery ran down many moons later and the whole silly argument started up again. My mum was a very jealous woman!

Do you keep it it the cupboard under the stairs Roses...