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
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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, 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
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, 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 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, two out of our three smoke detectors were going off. My grandpa won't call the fire department because he thinks our house will be condemned. The alarms are still going off. 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, my house was so dusty that when I started to clean it, the smoke detector went off. FML
Today, the power in my village went out. This caused the back-up battery powered alarm to go off. Nobody in the house even knew our alarm worked, let alone how to make it stop. It's been going off for over an hour now. FML
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bigmanj28 0
Better safe than sorry
loveexgirl 15
why did she stay inside if she was like "your gonna diee" ...
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Comments (149)
EYEoftheTIGER22 1
you should be happy being in the rain kicks ass
bruslywrestler 0
ahhhh poor baby stood in the rain for a whole 20 minutes and hates his life. tell me when you know what it's like to go hungry you spoiled ass
biancanick1 0
at least she cares
BeeZyBeaRRR 0
lucky you. i was in the same situation but its colorado si i stood out in a blizzard for two hours so i wouldnt die of carbon monoxide either!
Britbrat628 0
I've had carbon monoxide poisoning that is no joke it sucks I had to be on oxygen and some room by myself 4 two days and the way they test u Is by giving u a chest x-Ray and taking blood from ur main artery and that's in the wrist and that hert hurts the most and it also especially sucks when they can't find ur pluse cause they couldn't find mine
Jesus_Christ69 0
Next time you write a big paragraph, please try to spell stuff right and not use "ur" or "4". I'm not try to be a grammar nazi, I just can't read what you're saying.
wolffire222 5
Dude, at least it wasn't 115 degrees outside like it is here. I'd be grateful to have some of your rain.
JokeMeister 0
what if it wasn't the battery? you have a detector because YOU can't smell it!
bzschneider 1
What's your problem, you idiot/crybaby? She was doing the right thing- Carbon Monoxide can kill you. She didn't know the battery didn't work.
vixxen9 0
um, carbon monoxide can only kill because it takes the place of oxygen. basically it's because it results in a lack of oxygen. all u had to do was open the door for ventilation and u would've been fine. u don't need to go outside.
heyheyannie1 0
In America, it's illegal in some states not to have both detectors.