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[nonelvis]

OH MY GOD THERE IS SOMETHING IN OUR LIVING ROOM THAT BEEPS RANDOMLY ONCE A DAY AND I HAVE NO GODDAMNED CLUE WHAT IT IS.

It's probably whatever needs the suction cup. Either that, or a phone tap from the FBI and NSA. Hi, guys! What, Echelon wasn't good enough for you?

I'm going to bed now before anything else in my home appears out of thin air or attempts to report me to a government agency.

Comments

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

You have my utter sympathy. We had a random beeping that started about midnight a few months back and it took me days to find it. Turned out to be the clock on our shower radio.

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

1. I once had an old iPod that would beep at midnight every night. (I think Lunchboy had the same problem.)

2. More likely: There was something at work doing that for the longest time. I scoured the place and found nothing. The culprit? It was a damn smoke detector with a dying battery.

[lunchboy.livejournal.com]

My iPod used to randomly ping at midnight if I'd left it on, or it got accidentally turned on because I failed to flick the lock button. (The alarm had gotten set somehow.) Drove me crazy until I figured it out (because it went off once in a hotel room).

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

Smoke detector with low battery?

[mmancuso.livejournal.com]

Does one of your new-fangled gadgets use electric power for most of its functions, and batteries for other parts? Maybe the gadget is smart enough to ping you when the non-essential or backup batteries are dying.

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

You know, I moved into the house in June, and there was this one wall switch that didn't do anything when I flipped it. So every once in a while when I went past it, I'd give it a flip. After two months, I got a call from a woman in Germany telling me to cut it out.

(That's one of my favorite Steven Wright jokes.)

[bruyere-75.livejournal.com]

That was a Friends episode, too.

After Monica and Rachel had to switch apartments with Joey and Chandler, Monica discovered a switch that did nothing. I think she ended up tearing the wall apart to figure it out. I think it controlled an electrical outlet in her old place? (Was that the one where Phoebe was turning the TV on and off with her mind?)

My old house had loads of Mystery Switches. It was over 250 years old, and the people who had wired it were on some sort of crazy juice. There were switches that controlled stuff in other rooms, and one or two that did nothing at all. Plus an electrical outlet about eight feet from the floor.

[chanfaina.livejournal.com]

We had a mysterious late-night beep a while back. It turned out to be a shitty little novelty clock shaped like a robot. It was the favor from my boss's kid's bar mitzvah, and had an alarm function no one knew about because it didn't come with directions. Yet another cause for resentment (the ungrateful brat never sent a thank-you note for our gift, either).