The other night we had an unusual experience in our little home. It all started around 3 or 4 in the morning. As with all smoke detectors, ours picked the whee hours of the morning to run out of batteries and start making a "chirp, chirp" sound. I slept through it, but it woke Heather up. She couldn't sleep with all that chirping. Around 6am, she'd had enough and decided to go investigate. This is where I woke up. My first sight was of Heather cautiously tip-toeing into our bathroom.
"What are you doing, honey?" I asked.
"I'm looking for the cricket!" she whispered back.
I couldn't help but chuckle as I responded that it was not a cricket making that noise but the smoke detector. Well, she didn't believe me and so continued searching the apartment looking for that darn cricket, which included spending a few minutes in the frigid air on the deck listening for its chirping. I went back to sleep. After about 45 minutes later, she did too.
In the end, it was a learning experience for her. In her defense, she was still shrugging off her sleepiness. But for all you others out there, the moral is that unless you live in Texas, if a persistant chirping noise wakes you up in the middle of the night, it's more likely than not just from low batteries in your smoke detector.
4 comments:
LOL!!! I am seriously cracking up here!! Poor Heather! I hate the groggy morning annoyance of not getting enough sleep and not knowing why! Todd, I hope that you didn't tease her too much!
That is hilarious. I can totally picture heather sneaking around. SO funny!
That's our Heather! We love her so! It is amazing how the early hours of the morning can really mess with your head. Heather, remember my alarm clock incident?
This is definitely the Heather Carr I remember, know, and love!
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