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One day in the kitchen…
My Smoke Alarm: ‘Aww hey there Phil, how you doing today, say, what’s that you’re cooking hon?’
Me: ‘Oh nothing special, just a bit of toast’
My Smoke Alarm: ‘To..toast? Did you say Toast?! FIRE FIRE FIRE CALL THE FIRE BRIGADE FIRE GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!’
Me: (wafting tea-towel desperately, to halt the piercing noise) ‘Stop! Stop! It’s not a fire it’s just toast!!!!’
Another day in the kitchen…
Me: (Stretching and rubbing sleep out of my eyes) ‘Mmm think me and the kids’ll have a taste of France for breakfast’
My Smoke Alarm: ‘Morning Phil, what’s that you say, fancy something different?’
Me: ‘Yep, just slid a couple of pain au chocolats in to the mini oven, don’t take but 30 seconds to co..’
My Smoke Alarm: ‘PASTRIES! PASTRIES! FIRE FIRE!!! GET OUT CALL THE POLICE!!! THE HOUSE IS GONNA BURN DOWN!!!!’
Me: (going deaf in one ear due to pitch of alarm) ‘Where’s the tea-towel gone? stop making that noise!!!!’
One day in the garden…
Me: ‘The sausages are nearly done, who wants some first, hey son, don’t open the kitchen door you’ll let the smoke insi…’
My Smoke Alarm: ‘OOOOOH LORDY LORDY!!! WE ALL GONNA BURN!!! FIRE FIRE CALL THE POLICE!!! FIRE!!!’
Me: ‘Son, just close the door, she’ll quiet down soon enough’
One day in the living-room…
Me: ‘Okay kids, that’s the pumpkins all carved up, now lets put some candles inside th…’
My Smoke Alarm: ‘SAVE YOURSELVES!!! FORGET ABOUT ME!!! RUN, RUN FOR YOUR LIVESSSSS!!!!’
The kitchen here in France is lovely…but it’s awful quiet…
Takes me back to my days in halls, when those making toast after a night out would set the fire alarms off and have us all standing outside in the cold in our PJs for ages. Strangely enough, I don’t think I actually have a smoke alarm in my flat in France… (That would have alarm bells of all varieties ringing in the UK!)
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I think we have, I’m pretty sure it’s sat on top of the fridge-freezer, I’m not sure if it’s the fact that it’s further away, or that it’s got a kind of ‘laissez-faire’ approach to smoke-detecting, but I haven’t heard it once!
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The latter would definitely fit with the French ‘mode de vie’!
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If they were any more laid-back they’d be horizontal.
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Good story! My problem with smoke alarms is that I don’t change the batteries regularly. When they eventually run out it’s ALWAYS at 3 a.m. during a very cold night. Always.
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Ha ha ha, yep, I know what you mean, it’s sod’s law!
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I think our smoke alarm is from the same batch as yours. Toast? Opening the oven door to check on a cake? LOOK OUT! LOOK OUT!
But accidentally let a pan boil dry, the kitchen is full of smoke, and the fool thing will hang from the ceiling and ask, “Huh? What’s up, Doc?”
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Like my son in many ways. A truck could drive through the livingroom sometimes and he wouldn’t notice, but a tiny, tiny, TINY fly appears and he’s like ‘Aaaaaaaaagh!!!!!’
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