A heart stopping moment!
I was deep in slumber when a piercing noise woke me with one almighty jolt! The burglar alarm was going off.... it was still dark (and don't forget my shutters were leaning against the wall in the spare bedroom).
I kid you not - I nearly had another blo*dy heart attack!!! Geez - I didn't know if I was frightened or just scared witless. I suspect it was the latter.
Why wasn't the 'mutt' barking his head off?
Had 'they' fed him drugged food?
Should I risk going downstairs?
Should I turn on the light? Or - even better - should I just lock my bedroom door and hide under the duvet?
With all these thoughts in my head, the fact that I was being deafened by the alarm overcame any sensible thoughts I may have harboured thirty seconds before.
So - dressing gown and slippers on (mobile and cordless phones in the pocket). Exit to the landing - I can see all the upstairs windows are still closed (phew...). Turn on the lights on the stairs and slowly (VERY slowly) venture down them one at a time.....alarm still screaming at me, but even worse - still NO dog barking or jumping about like a demented kangaroo - as is his wont! At this point my usual principles, about householders owning hand guns, was abandoned totally....Why hadn't I got a gun - here - NOW? If I'd had one in my hand and an intruder had appeared at that moment - I swear I would have used it. Not 'may have', but 'would have'!
But having arrived at the bottom of the stairs, with the alarm control flashing like a fairground and showing that the circuits had been broken in all three zones - a fact I KNEW was not true - downstairs the only possible entry point is the front door and I was standing right next to it! So all that was left was to enter the code, de-activate and then reset the alarm. Now to 'the dog'! Where was he? I'll tell you where - in the kitchen, stretching and just waking up! Can you believe it?
Well that does it now - "Enough" I told him.... "You bark your head of if a cat so much as sets foot on the driveway - yet with all that racket you sleep through????"
So he's on Ebay this morning - best offer over €1 - and he's yours!
Know what he said when I told him? This was his reaction....
Cheeky little s*d!
Oh - by the way, having done all this, I only then looked at the time....
It was just 5.38 AM!!!
But with a cup of coffee (alas - too early for a stiff brandy) and some time to reflect on the problem I'm sure that the decorators had probably caused the thing to 'go off'....but WHY at 5.35am? Tomorrow I'll have to call the electrician who installed it and ask him!
I kid you not - I nearly had another blo*dy heart attack!!! Geez - I didn't know if I was frightened or just scared witless. I suspect it was the latter.
Why wasn't the 'mutt' barking his head off?
Had 'they' fed him drugged food?
Should I risk going downstairs?
Should I turn on the light? Or - even better - should I just lock my bedroom door and hide under the duvet?
With all these thoughts in my head, the fact that I was being deafened by the alarm overcame any sensible thoughts I may have harboured thirty seconds before.
So - dressing gown and slippers on (mobile and cordless phones in the pocket). Exit to the landing - I can see all the upstairs windows are still closed (phew...). Turn on the lights on the stairs and slowly (VERY slowly) venture down them one at a time.....alarm still screaming at me, but even worse - still NO dog barking or jumping about like a demented kangaroo - as is his wont! At this point my usual principles, about householders owning hand guns, was abandoned totally....Why hadn't I got a gun - here - NOW? If I'd had one in my hand and an intruder had appeared at that moment - I swear I would have used it. Not 'may have', but 'would have'!
But having arrived at the bottom of the stairs, with the alarm control flashing like a fairground and showing that the circuits had been broken in all three zones - a fact I KNEW was not true - downstairs the only possible entry point is the front door and I was standing right next to it! So all that was left was to enter the code, de-activate and then reset the alarm. Now to 'the dog'! Where was he? I'll tell you where - in the kitchen, stretching and just waking up! Can you believe it?
Well that does it now - "Enough" I told him.... "You bark your head of if a cat so much as sets foot on the driveway - yet with all that racket you sleep through????"
So he's on Ebay this morning - best offer over €1 - and he's yours!
Know what he said when I told him? This was his reaction....
Cheeky little s*d!
Oh - by the way, having done all this, I only then looked at the time....
It was just 5.38 AM!!!
But with a cup of coffee (alas - too early for a stiff brandy) and some time to reflect on the problem I'm sure that the decorators had probably caused the thing to 'go off'....but WHY at 5.35am? Tomorrow I'll have to call the electrician who installed it and ask him!
posted by Carole B at
8:46 AM
4 Comments:
The alrm system is getting you ready for when the contractor starts working! I hope that you have now calmed down and feeling better.
Well yes Gil - just about!
The old hands were shaking a 'teensy bit' though for ten minutes or so!
But as Queen Victoria once said - "We are NOT amused"
LOL (I can now...Couldn't a few hours ago though).
I AM SO SORRY FOR YOUR SCARE, I DO BELIEVE IN HAVING A GUN FOR SELFPROTECTION IN THIS DAY AND TIME, BAD PEOPLE HAVE THEM ANYWAYS. I ALSO CARRY PEPPERSPRAY ON MY SETT OF KEYS. I AM NOT SURE I CAN USE EITHER WHEN I AM SCARED BUT I HOPE I GET REALLY #PSD" AND THAT USUALLY GETS ME TO ACT RIGHT. I TAKE YOUR PUPP, HE IS SOO LIKE MY HUSBAND, IN 41 YEARS I HAVE LEARNED THAT I HAVE TO BE THE SECURITY GUARD BECAUSE HE SLEEPS THROUGH TOO MUCH :( BUT I TRY TO TRUST IN GOD TO KEEP US SAFE AND ESPECIALLY YOU, SINCE YOU ARE PRECIOUS TO MANY LITTLE SOULS OUT HERE TOO. JUST MAYBE GET A BIGGER DOG, MY FRIEND HILDGARD LOVED BOXERS, SHE WAS SO SAFE WITH THEM THAT EVEN THE AMBULANCE DRIVERS HAS A HARD TIME GETTING HER OUT WHEN SHE FELL BECAUSE THEY DID NOT KNOW THAT SHE RAISED THEM TO BE AS GENTLE AS SHE WAS, I MISS HER.
SO, TIME TO REST YOUR SPOOKED LITTLE SELF BUT THEN TRY BE BRAVE AGAIN CAROLE :) MY FRIENDS ALARM WOULD GO OFF WHEN A BIRD WOULD FLY BY, SO, MAYBE IT IS BEST TO TALK TO THE " ALARM MAN" IN THE MEANTIME I WILL PRAY FOR GOD TO KEEP YOU SAFE OK :)
LOVE AND COURAGE,
TINA
man, what a horrible way to wake up! I'm not sure what I would have done in your position, probably lock myself in my room and call the police! Still, it's hard to imagine that in a town like yours there would be much crime - then again, that would probably make it an ideal location, no one would suspect! I'm glad to hear that it was only some sort of short in the system, I blame the workers as well!
After last year in Milano where there were city lights and noises 24/7 I get a bit creeped out here at night. If I go out on the deck at night it's just pitch black all around. Someone could be lingering only a few feet away and I wouldnt know it! The only system we have here is the leaves on the ground that would make it impossible for someone to walk without hearing them.
One night though when my brother and Jen were outta town, I was out on the deck. And wouldnt you know I did hear those leaves! scared me so badly as I peered into the dark trying to see where they were coming from. I could tell they were a ways off. we've got a pretty big yard all around us here, and streets on 3 sides. Eventually I saw him! He was over on the other side of the yard walking along a fence that seperates us from our neighbors on the one side where there isnt a road. He was walking so calmly and making so much bloody noise in the leaves that I figured he probably wasnt doing something he shouldnt have. Eventually he got to the end of the fence and went over and into the nighbors house. Must of been one of them, as the police never showed up!
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