Beeeep beeeep beeeep beeeep beeeep beeeep beeeep beeeep beeeep beeeep beeeep beeeep beeeep beeeep beeeep beeeep
The insistant shrilling sound cuts into my slumber and eventually pierces my consciousness propelling me to hastily throw on clothes and stumble from the bedroom looking for smoke while trying to figure out how to get to my sleeping children in the back bedrooms. All the while something doesn’t quite seem right but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
Only when there is no red glowing to be found, no flickering of flames to be seen or even a whiff of smoke to be smelt does it register that the reason something doesn’t seem quite right is because the object emitting the horrid sound is not our smoke alarm but the goddam pager.
It is 2:40 am.
An hour at which I can be easily forgiven for thinking that the pager was the smoke alarm.
It went off again at 2:50 am.
I removed the batteries.
Then worked on suppressing the urge to kill the asshat technician who changed our settings.
We usually have the pager set to a melody however the person servicing it last week must have returned it to the default beep beep goddam beep setting.
Admittedly the pager beeeep beeeep beeeep is a little longer than the smoke alarm beep beep beep hence my feeling that something wasn’t quite right, but to a sleepy brain it’s all the same and it scared the shit outta me nonetheless!
Oh – the fire call was only a power pole on fire 6 km’s out the road. I don’t go to fire-calls in the middle of the night when I’m home alone. Ok I don’t go to fire-calls in the middle of the night period. I make hubby do that lol. One of the prerogatives of being a volunteer.
The pager now has it’s batteries back and is on it’s regular tuneful setting…………the one that I have learnt to sleep through 
So what are your favourite screw ups this week?
Anything equally alarming? Sensationally screwy? Or just plain mucked up?
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How hard is the asshat technician going to be kicked in the pants?
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Mistress B (311 comments.) Reply:
May 11th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
very hard!
Do you have something you could spank that technician with ?
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Mistress B (311 comments.) Reply:
May 11th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Let’s just say that his nickname isn’t ‘fozzy bear’ without reason and he’s not someone I’d spank……….
Awesome, so it is not just me who curses powerpoles for catching on fire during the night, or asshat technicians for changing tunes on said pagers. Wonder if I am the only one who has broken a pager by throwing it across the room because it dared to make a noise in the middle of the night though?
Or me who has managed to tune out the sound of the pager in the middle of the night to the point where I dont even realise DH has left, unless he isnt there when I wake up.
Mistress B (311 comments.) Reply:
May 11th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
I haven’t thrown them across the room but I often remove batteries! I must admit to having woken up once or twice to find my hubby hopping back into bed and asking him what on earth he’s been doing because I didn’t hear the pager or him leave lol
I know a certain technician who may have some batteries inserted where they’re not meant to go…:P
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Mistress B (311 comments.) Reply:
May 11th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
now there’s an idea with merit……. lmao
so i’m sitting here wondering if you received any MOTHERS DAY PRESENTS.. there seems to be no mention of it and i can’t help but wonder if your secret agent mumma copied the address down wrong.. she could be very well starring in a screw up tuesday of her own..
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I did indeed and was sitting here wondering if my secret mumma agent was home from her trip yet. My daughter’s have been trying to steal my YELLOW socks – one of them does not find them comfortable though so gave up and the other one can get stuffed! (and thankyou – they are great! And the choccies were yummy too)
confusionsoup (17 comments.) Reply:
May 11th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
you know.. i can probably swing it so your offspring has a pair of her own.. my MIL can whip them up in no time, just need a rough shoe size (Cm’s in length) and a favorite colour
bootie theft is rampant in this house too, the beloved has no shame in wearing pink booties.
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We had a power pole catch fire here recently. Well, in the next suburb. One of the really big ones with the three arms at the top. One of those ceramic thingy’s exploded, from our house it sounded like a car crash, the smoke and sparks could be seen from our back yard.
When my ex had a pager, he had it on vibrate. One weekend a strange sound was confusing us greatly – until he found it with dead batteries, after trying to alert him of a message over and over and over – against the coat rack.
My screw up this week is an inanimate object.
they are really great! Perfect for around the house. And less sweaty than bedsocks. I really like mine. I’ll send you an email
when ours goes flat it does this slow single beep thing every minute or two until you pay attention to it…….. that usually happens at 3 in the morning too. Again the solution is to pull out the batteries lol
Ugh, I’d hate to be woken by an alarm like that – and worse, to think the house was on fire! GAH! My Tuesday is just getting started and I PRAY nothing goes wrong
Have a better Wednesday !!! xoxoxo
oh it sucked!!
I pray your day is better too lol Actually my day has been reasonable, just the night that sucked. lol
So good that the house wasn’t on fire! Amazing what goes through your mind in times of ‘emergency’ BUT 2.40am ……… c’mon! midnight or 6am would have been so much more appropriate! Thanks for sharing………..it was a great read!
midnight no problem………… but I don’t do 6am either lol. I really don’t function well before at least 8, preferably 9 lol
Dammit. I have a screw up Tuesday. Every goddamn Tuesday. I am thinking that Tuesday is not my friend and should be banned. BANNED I SAY!
I think that every day I have something that is messed up some how some way. I sent you several emails to let you know that I had shipped your package on May 1. I hope you get it soon. They told me 10 days. I didn’t know if your email had changed with your move. Anyway, just checking in to see if you received your gift. Valerie
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