i'm a curse on this family

really though. first an attempted break in, now this. only, this wasn't quite as scary. more like exciting. and kind of funny.

so the kids had just fallen asleep, apart from one who was up reading. there i am, minding my own business. watching the proposal and doing dishes when i hear a noise. at first, i thought it was the dishwasher. then i realize it's coming from another room, so i start following the noise. it gets louder and louder as i go up the stairs, down the hallway and into the baby's room where there is a piercing noise. baby boy looks totally  confused, little girl stumbles out of her bed half asleep.

it sounds like it's coming from the smoke detector only, there's only one going off in the entire house and there is clearly no smoke. so make a million calls between my dad, the alarm system company, and the parents of the family. the fire department shows up (2 trucks.. seriously?!)

with the battery removed, the smoke detector detached, and the alarm system shut down, me and the 6 firemen are stumped. they said they've never felt so stupid before cause we COULD NOT figure out where the stupid noise was coming from.

suddenly, one of them unplugs the c02 detector. that's comforting.

so they bring up the fire chief. they test the house for c02 once, twice, three times all coming up negative. we then look at the detector, it expired in 2005.

moral of the story: check your c02 detectors so it doesn't go off at 8:30 at night waking up the entire city of san francisco