Today, my mother told me that the carbon-monoxide alarm went off last night, but since she didn't smell any gas, she decided to just remove the batteries and go back to bed. I had to explain to her that you can't smell carbon monoxide, and that we could have died in our sleep. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, our carbon monoxide detector started beeping. My mom started freaking out and made me go stand outside so I "don't die". I stood outside for 20 minutes, it was raining and it turned out that the detector was just low on battery. FML
Today, I was home alone when I heard the carbon-monoxide detector beeping. Panicking, I grabbed my dog, ran out of my house as fast as I could, and waited outside for 3 hours for my mom to get home. Turned out the detector was just out of batteries. FML
Today, I thought I had carbon monoxide poisoning because I had the symptoms and my detector was going off. I called the fire dept, they checked me, they checked my apartment. My apartment is fine; I'm just out of shape, have high blood pressure, and don't know how to work simple electronics. FML
Today, my mom got a new furnace put in because they found out the old one was leaking carbon monoxide. This is six months after I got kicked out because I was sleeping too much, so my mom thought I was using drugs. FML
Today, at 2:47 am, my mom woke me up in a panic screaming about smelling gas and the house blowing up. Twenty minutes, two fire trucks, and a traumatized dog later, it was just the neighbors burning their mail. FML
Today, in my sleep I let out a couple of farts. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal, but on this night I had slept in my mom's room. She came to check in on me and violently woke me up because she thought I pooped in the bed. Now my entire family knows I fart in my sleep. 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, 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, 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
Today, there was a gas leak at work. We called the fire department, who advised us to evacuate the building. We called our manager to let her know, and her response was "Oh, don’t do that." My boss would rather let us die of carbon monoxide exposure than lose out on 3 hours of work. FML
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water4life 0
she needs to be slapped
CleanSheets 0
Your mom clearly knew you couldn't smell it, but was just looking for a way to end your life while she made her get away in the emergancy ecsape pod that she secretly had installed into her closet several years ago.
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Comments (174)
HappyFishh 0
wow, you're mom is really stupid..seriously, is she mentally retarded or something?
sublime93 0
OP's mom just didn't know...chill out man
123e3 0
If there was a carbon monoxide leak wouldn't you be dead?
alewiina 0
you'd think that if you had a CO detector in your place, you'd know what it does and what it's detecting... if you could smell it, you wouldn't need an alarm :S
vexis58 1
According to that logic, I don't need a smoke alarm either. After all, I can smell smoke!
perdix 31
I had carbon monoxide poisoning when I was a kid. It was horrible! It was worse than the time I slept with that fat girl who had thrown up.
saranottelling 7
I laughed so hard I choked on the cookie I was eating. I coughed it up. I blame you, meanie!!!
perdix 31
Sorry, I owe you a cookie. What kind do you like? Can I buy you store bought or do you require homemade? If you require homemade, do you really trust the ingredients I might scrounge up around here?
newsgit 0
since it appears the person owed a cookie will not collect it, I will for him. And yes, I trust those ingredients, if ya know what I mean ;)
CallMeHush 1
Are there weevils in your pantry?
CallMeHush 1
It was close! The gene pool almost got a little deeper.
saranottelling 7
I don't want your cookie, you could have poisoned it!!! Sorry... I was just forced to watch an episode of Matlock with an old man... that's the last time I volunteer!
sterl13 0
I <3 perdix!!
Luckster 0
I suggest you move out asap. If you're a minor, move in with a relative who actually has a brain. Any longer in that house and you're going to die for sure!
alliemay 0
That was stupid and dangerous, but your mom has one point. Some places, they artificially scent carbon monoxide so you can smell a gas leak. Because they do that where I've lived, I didn't even know they had CO detectors because we don't use them.
Taipan_fml 0
well ain't that just fancy...
BMP 0
did you?
memorables 0
FYL, buddy. If your mother is that idiotic then she must be hard to live with.
shalizzz 0
How are you not dead? You slept an entire night in a house where there was a CO leak. I though that CO was highly poisonous and that it can kill you even if you inhale a relatively small amount.
I_am_stupid_also 6
The detector has to detect amounts that are not yet fatal. Otherwise, how would hear the alarm?
shalizzz 0
Well, that is true. But the OP spent HOURS inhaling contaminated air. With every second spent there, a bit more CO would end up in her lungs and from there into her bloodstream.
ImaginaryFoe 1
No, CO is not always an instant killer. You can breathe it for hours or even days depending on the amount you are exposed to. And, as has been pointed out earlier, it could've been a dying battery or dying monitor.
I_am_stupid_also 6
The monitors have to be sensitive enough to pick up amounts that even only over a long time build up to dangerous levels. If they picked up only levels that were high enough to kill quickly, then people would die in cases where there was a slow build up within the blood.
shalizzz 0
Well, I guess it's true what they say: You learn something new every day! Thanks for the info, I didn't know that.
Squander 3
FYL Lucky you guys have lives to ****, now, though.