Today, I was cooking something I knew would make a lot of smoke, so I asked my teenage daughter to tape a bag over the smoke detector. She said she did, so I cooked; the alarm went off and firemen came. She hadn't taped over the smoke detector, she'd taped it over the doorbell. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I managed to set off the smoke detectors while cooking burgers. The cops and fire department showed up. FML
Today, I was making dinner when the smoke alarm started going off. I opened all the windows and stood there waving a towel at it like an idiot. Then I realized that the alarm was coming from the apartment next door. FML
Today, I was cooking dinner when my smoke alarm started beeping. I opened the windows, turned on the fan, and checked everything twice. I then realized the noise wasn't the smoke alarm. It was my oven timer. I'd been cooking completely normally and panicking for no reason. FML
Today, I was making dinner when my smoke alarm started going off. I opened all the windows and waved a towel underneath it. After ten minutes, I realized the alarm wasn't reacting to the food. Its battery was dying. FML
Today, I cooked dinner for the girl I've been dating. Everything was going well until I accidentally set off the smoke alarm. The fire department showed up, and my date spent the rest of the evening flirting with one of the firefighters, so I guess we weren't actually dating? FML
Today, my kitchen nearly burned down because the fire alarm didn't detect the plumes of smoke wafting through the kitchen. This is the same alarm that wails when I use the toaster. FML
Today, my smoke alarm went off. In a frenzy, I called 9-1-1 and exited my house. Several minutes later a fire truck showed up. After investigating, one of the firemen informed me I needed to change the batteries in my smoke alarm. FML
Today, my smoke alarm has a tendency to give false alarms. Despite this, it did not go off at all when I was genuinely overcooking food and smoke was everywhere in the house, except for the room I was in. My smoke detector is plotting against me. FML
Today, my house was so dusty that when I started to clean it, the smoke detector went off. FML
Today, after meaning to do so for a while, I began cleaning my oven. I sprayed it with the foam cleaner stuff, closed the oven for the foam to soak in, then forgot about the whole thing. Later, I preheated the oven for a pizza and triggered a smoke alarm, which brought the fire department to my door. No pizza, just shame. FML
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Top comments
MissMae93 23
Well someone didn't get any visits from Sparky the Fire Safety Dog as a child.
junkman6 22
Seriously generation bashing doesn't even cover this. How retarded do you have to be to put a bag over the door bell instead of a smoke detector? Hint smoke detector is on the ceiling.
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GooglePlus 0
why would the firemen come unless you called them
RedPillSucks 33
Actually OPs daughter put a bag over the outside door bell as a sign to pending guests that OP is cooking, and the guests chose the wrong day to visit. OPs cooking is legendary, in a bad way. Her 3-alarm chilli really does generate a 3-alarm fire.
stan86_fml 1
Wow...just......wow.
missrobynxx 3
I'm trying to think of something you can cook that would cause a fire alarm to go off. I've only ever had them go off if something is burning. Never actually planned to cook something that smokes a lot....hmmmm. Maybe I'm just too stoned and thinking into this too much.
oh_lordy_me 18
Confused...why the heck did she put it over the doorbell?
zuzupetalsYO 11
Cause she be dumb...
fdeg4161 13
No offense, OP, but your daughter is a HUGE idiot.
NicoleAshley10 0
How did she get the smoke detector mix up with the door knob?
EmazingLight 9
How did YOU get the door knob mixed up with the door bell?
Keiren 14
I just open the kitchen window before my brother cooks anything since there's almost always smoke. With the luck my family has, the first time the smoke detector is disabled the house'll catch on fire.
KiddNYC1O 22
Can't you just remove the battery, then install it when you're done? At least that's what we do in my apartment. But I guess house detectors are different...
zuzupetalsYO 11
So the firemen had to knock? *tsk tsk tsk