I’m with you, brother. I build all my communications and security equipment into our front hall coat closet. Because of all the electronics, I put a smoke detector in the ceiling of the closet. The smoke detectors are all AC connected, but the batteries still run down and the damn things beep.
A year ago we had one of those damnable brief “beeps” happening every few minutes. It took me HOURS to remember I’d put a smoke detector in the closet. We had, one by one, taken down all the smoke detectors in the bedrooms, hall, and living room without finding the culprit. Then I finally remembered I’d put one in the hall closet.
The “Marketing Requirements Documents” for these things must include a requirement: “Drive consumer insane with 100 millisecond beeps every five minutes.” They sure succeeded meeting that requirement!
LOL! Nice post!
Your old car will have the points foul out long before you catch up with anyone responsible. Also, most even vaguely recent reasonable quality appliances have manuals written in decent English. If it’s only in Japanese, either you bought the wrong thing or your Japanese appliance is appallingly old.
Also, get your hearing checked, you should be better able to locate the source of the beeping than what you have stated.
:P
LOL! Excellent. :)
There are things that should beep and don’t. Most of them are black or dark gray. Clickers, key fobs, mice, small flashlights, thumb drives, external drives, chargers, my house slippers and my wallet. All these should light up as well as beep. It’s a big house and half the walking I do in it is while looking for stuff.
My microwave beeps 4 times to signal the end of a cycle.
One would be sufficient.
Two would be tolerable.
Three are a bit much.
FOUR!!!!
And then it beeps at 5th time when I open the door to remove the finished item.
I have found no setting to change that.
Beep Beep Beep Beep
Beep!
The sound of the timer on my oven drives me nuts.
Logged in just to thank you... great stuff! lol
Oh, that’s you? Ok, I’ll stop randomly flicking that wall switch that didn’t seem connected to anything.
It’s the damn fire alarms.
And you can’t even tell which one it is. I went through all the trouble of replacing the battery in one only to find out it was the one in the next room that was beeping.
My washer doesn’t beep...it does all sorts of smart things like deciding how much water I need and what temperature I should be allowed and when I may open its door. But it doesn’t beep when it’s done and by the time I remember there’s a wash in there, it’s too late to put it in the dryer.
Smoke alarm needs a battery. They make a little beep when they do.
IT'S YOUR SMOKE DETECTOR! Your battery is low and needs replacement!!!
I’m laughing so hard I’m crying. So sorry, it’s been awhile since I’ve laughed so hard. And on top of that, same thing happened to me today. I have one oc those NOAA radios for emergencies - the kind that can be charged by a hand crank with flashlight. (Who knows if that actually works, I keep it plugged in all the time.) It seldom goes off - for tornado or hurricane warnings. It kept going off all afternoon, WTH, or so I thought. Each time I turned it on, it simply recited the weather in every place but where I am. Plus, blue skies, sunshine. I kept trying to figure out how the settings must have been accidentally changed. Finally, it went off again, but I was actually messing with it at the time. It wasn’t the radio! I recently upgraded to a new cell phone because the blasted thing wouldn’t hold a charge & constantly nagged me to remove apps because it didn’t have enough space for updates. Aggravating to clear cache on a bajillion os apps, until it finally had no more space. So I bought a new cell phone, but had the old one still on a charger. It was the culprit sounding an earth shattering alarm that would wake the dead letting me know....wait for it...my Governor extended the stay at home order until April 30. I can so relate to your house beeping & thanks for such a hilarious post!
I did this internet search: "my house beeps once every 10 minutes"
This came up:
Why Is Your ADT System Beeping?
If you keep digging and refining searches you can find any answer on the internet.
I once had a problem with a rainbow line on pictures I scanned on a flatbed scanner. I search a hundred links all giving me the same answers that didn't fix the problem.
I kept digging. I finally found the answer no one else knew about on an obscure blog about scanners. A TINY speck of dust was on the scanner mirror.
I had to laugh reading your post, dangus, but oh, do I feel your pain. Like it or not, many of us have psychological electronic cattle prods.
Getting into a car, driving away without your seatbelt fastened. It gets louder and more insistent.
Opening a refrigerator door. Many have an alarm if you leave it open. Have you ever found yourself rushing against an unseen clock, trying to get whatever it is you need before the chime starts sounding?
Dialing a phone. If you take too long...looking for the number...trying to read it, and finish it before the phone gives you the “You’ve taken too long” signal, and you have to hang up. You FEEL the deadline closing in.
You get home at 2:00 AM. The neighborhood is as quiet as a tomb. You gently close the car door so you don’t disturb the neighbors. Then, out of habit, you hit the lock on your car. “BEEP BEEP.” Loud enough that any light sleeper worth their salt cocks an eye open.
Worst of all electronic things for me is The Pager. I have been carrying one continuously since around 1994, and intermittently for about a decade before that. I work in health care, and in the old days, when that pager went off, I was going on a minimum of a Three Hour Tour, driving into the hospital, doing some test, and going home. I lived with it. I breathed it. My life rotated around it. I was famous for throwing it over a house at a party I went to one time. Everywhere I went, I had to know where the closest pay phone was. I always had to know my driving radius from the hospital. I became so sensitized to the pager, when it went off at night while I was sleeping, I would literally levitate about a foot out of the bed, turning in the air, and clutching wildly at the sound of it. My heart would pound and race. It was awful. I turned off the audible alarm and set it to vibrate, and even that sound had the same terrifying effect on me.
The turning point for me was when my wife and I were watching television one night, and a commercial had a pager go off. I visibly twitched and jerked in my seat. My wife saw this, and said “Maybe you should look at another line of work...” Boy she was right, and I did. So, Pagers were the most terrifying for me.
Smoke Detectors became the most irritating.
A couple of years ago I bought a new smoke detector. I put the older one in the garage. Well...my wife tells me one day there is an insistent, nearly inaudible beep in our garage and she can’t find it.
I go out, and don’t hear anything, but...after a few minutes...there it is.
“Bip.”
So you listen, but...it only sounds every minute or so.
“Bip.”
Where is it? You are motionless, as if you are standing in the path of some kind of electronic Tyrannosaurus Rex. Waiting.
“Bip.”
You think “I can find this if I am patient. Wait for the next one.”
“Bip.”
But you can’t...quite...localize it.
“Bip.”
Next thing I knew, I had my hands cupped on each ear with my palms facing forward.
“Bip.”
Then, it was two plastic shapes.
“Bip.”
I found myself holding a stethoscope in my hands, seeing if I could take it apart and somehow manufacture some listening device.
“Bip.”
I was at this for nearly an hour. It became personal.
“Bip.”
Finally, by accident, I found it. I had never put the old smoke detector up, and it had somehow fallen behind our clothes dryer.
Such is life in the age of technology.