The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for August 19, 2012

That explains a lot.

This goes on at home when we’re there…

oh man…..

My ex used to think the smoke detector was to let you know when dinner was ready.

They’re playing hide & go squeak.

I was going to say what Marg said… you don’t have to be out for them to play this game!

One of mine used to chirp softly like a baby bird whenever the battery even thought about getting low… and my dog went ballistic long before I could hear it..

That meant a replacement battery about every 2 months… and a fight with the cover.I hate to admit it…. but I just ripped it off the ceiling one night when I couldn’t get it open and it wouldn’t shut up…and I never replaced it.I’d already taken out the other one cos my ceilings are low, and it went off every time I used the stove.Oh well.

Can’t even boil egg’s with out them going off!!! Every 6 months I have to plug in the battery’s so the land lord can come by and see they still work 5 min. after he’s gone pull the battery’s out again

You need to replace them with Acme smoke detectors. Instead of chirps they send out coyote howls.

I set my security camera up to see if this really goes on, but the battery kept going dead.

Ray will hide in a missing sock.

I am telling you.

Around here it means either a house fire or that we’re having pork chops for dinner. Both scenarios are true. Pork chops always turn out perfectly, and the house (kitchen) fire did some damage, but all repairable. I am a firm believer in smoke alarms! As someone mentioned above, It’s a smoke alarm, not a timer!. (I think that’s a Ron White quote)

Ray thinks the situation is reVolting!

Good thing Ray has 9 Volts because it’s a cinch the smoke detectors have only one life and it’s about to get snuffed.

If you’re building a new home, have the smoke detectors hard-wired in. Voila—no need to replace batteries, unless you have a very long power outage.

I left a burner on on the stove once. A wooden cutting board caught fire. I had a regular campfire in the middle of the kitchen and the smoke alarm never made a sound!

It’s amazing that man has been able to procreate fast enough to keep from going extinct without all the devices supposedly designed to ‘protect us’ from ourselves. Airbags, smoke detectors, helmets, seat belts, building codes, etc. ad nauseum, along with their accompanying laws and fines, are such a wonderful thing, and certainly enhance our perception of ‘freedom’. Right.

We had a smoke detector start beeping in church. Looked for it for two solid weeks. Somebody had stuck it down inside the organ!

lifespan of 7-10 years. will still chirp w/new batteries

Ours always seems to start chirping when my husband is away. I’m unreliable on ladders and the chirping drives our dog nuts!

Any of you commenters ever lost a friend in a house fire who might have been saved if the owner had installed a working smoke detector? No? I didn’t think so.

I changed my stepmother’s smokj alarm batteries yesterday. They wouldn’t stop “chirping” every so often afterwards. She told me to take the ^&**$£ things out. I shall have to get her new detectors.