The smoke detector we have in our apartment talks! This is NOT a good thing. It has been saying ‘No batteries’ in a very loud female voice, every half hour through the night. The ceiling in our apartment is very high and we can’t reach it otherwise we would have tried to find a way to switch it off. I was very tempted to throw something at it, but was worried that I would set off the actual alarm, which I am guessing is louder and more annoying than The Voice. Needless to say, I did not sleep well last night and have woken up feeling very grumpy – every time I drifted off, the horrid thing would talk and wake me up! I am waiting for maintenance to come and fix it . . . AND I have backache thanks to jumping up so many times in the night!
26 January, 3:23 am
Do you have some chairs? What you need to do is make one of these then you can reach it to change the batteries:
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26 January, 7:15 am
Unfortunately we didn’t have any multi-colored chairs to stack up into a climbable sculpture. Perhaps we should have tried it with our boring black dining chairs?