Today, I fell asleep on the couch. My parents didn't wake me up, went to bed and set our burglar alarm. If I trip a motion sensor, a siren will go off. The motion sensor in my living room is pointed directly at me and I have to pee. It's been 2 hours. FML
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Today, I fell asleep on the couch and woke up to find that I had slept through my house getting robbed. FML
Today, I woke up in the middle of the night to get a glass of water. Groggy and disoriented, I bumped into several pieces of furniture and made a lot of noise. My dad woke up, mistook me for a burglar, and knocked me out with his fist. FML
Today, I installed motion sensor lights in my house to save on energy. When I laid down in bed, I saw the lights turn on from downstairs to the kitchen. I live alone. FML
Today, I'm staying in a hotel where the lights are automatic. They turn on when something moves and turn off when everything is still. I'm a sensitive sleeper and I move in my sleep, so the light wakes me up. It's currently 2 a.m. and all together I've gotten about 20 minutes of sleep. FML
Today, I finally managed to sleep, after two days of being kept awake by the miniature floodlights my neighbors have installed to scare off burglars. Only a couple of hours into my sleep, I woke up to the sound of their car being broken into. FML
Today, my dad reactivated a digital clock we had lying around, and accidentally set an alarm on it. For 1 a.m.. So guess who went hunting for that noise in the middle of night. And guess who banished the thing to the living room, then forgot about it, and slept on the sofa in said living room. Or tried to. FML
Today, I'm dead on my feet. My flatmate's alarm went off for 20 minutes at 5 a.m., which I heard and he didn't. A car alarm went off outside my window for half an hour at 7 a.m. My building fire alarm went off twice, at 8 and 8:10 a.m. Just let me sleep. FML
Today, after being on vacation for a week, my alarm sounded early in the morning. It scared me so badly I peed myself. FML
Today, I fell asleep on the couch while babysitting. When the kids' parents came home, they made fake crying noises to see if I would wake up. I slept like a baby, and by the time they finally roused me, I'd left a nice drool stain on the armrest. FML
Today, I woke up in a panic to what sounded like a plane about to crash into my house. I was so scared, I peed myself and passed out. It was just my cell phone vibrating under my pillow. FML
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yamazumi 8
pff, their fault, would have gotten up anyway.
Rinat_fml 26
I wouldn't hold it in if I were you, it's just a siren, not a cage of lions.
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slyde32 12
Wouldn't the motion sensors be disabled while people are at home? our old system had a setting so when you were out for the day, the sensors would be active, at night while you're home, the sensors are disabled so that the alarm would only trip if a door or window was opened or smashed.
littlekellilee 45
I would always set that setting at night. What if someone got in your house while it was disabled and hid in your basement? Or a closet? Night is when I'd most likely set the motion sensor, because I watch too much criminal minds.
yamazumi 8
Because sometimes people need to get up in the middle of the night to pee, or for a drink, or to let their dog outside because it'd about to have diarrhoea all over floor.
littlekellilee 45
I had a cat, and because of it we needed to change the motion sensors to break-glass mode. Having a pet makes the motion sensor kind of impossible, doesn't it?
slyde32 12
if someone got in at night, it'd go off anyway. there'd be no need for them to move and trip the motion sensor, we had a cat as well who would set it off at night if that setting was active
littlekellilee 45
I was home alone one night and my alarm went off. I was positive the garage door has just popped open enough to trip the door sensor, as it sometimes does. I answered the alarm company call and said I was fine, then hung up and went to close the door. It was already closed. I waited for 20 minutes in sheer panic until I realized that if someone had come in and hid somewhere, I was probably going to die regardless of my next move, so I went back to bed. I would have loved a motion sensor... though I probably still would have died.
stellasue11 38
thats what i thought too
blue4d 5
Motion detectors are disabled by default in stay mode for this very reason. Ydi because it's your own misunderstanding
Witchylady 18
Just get up and go to the bathroom.
superspooky 13
I would've gotten up anyway. They didn't have the consideration to wake you, so why should you be considerate of them?
Dcm210 19
Yell for them? Post a reply please :)
Neongreenme 8
This is just stupid! How do you live in a house and not know how the alarm works? If you set it off go to the panel and enter in your little code. Usually they call and you can just explain what happened and give them your password.
skittyskatbrat 19
So, set it off. Your parents can deal with the consequences of being careless and/or obnoxious. They're adults, they understand the concept.
rileyks 5
So get up and wake them up
v8nick97 11
If they put it on Stay mode, the alarm shouldn't be triggered by a motion sensor
bosniangirl27 21
Just get up