In which your humble narrator curses the fools at the Kidde Company for their lousy carbon monoxide detectors.
Regular readers will recall our near death experience with the "silent killer" (no, not farts, carbon monoxide). This prompted me to purchase a carbon monoxide detector. On Friday, I installed it whilst the children were eating their lunch. After 4 minutes, it went off. And it wouldn't stop until I unscrewed and pried the back off and cut it's little battery heart out. Then I opened all the windows and cut off power and gas to all the dangerous appliances. I called the emergency line at Xcel Energy and they sent a guy out within an hour to locate the source of the carbon monoxide.
There was none. Just a #&@%! faulty alarm. Eighty-five decibels of fun and $25 down the toilet.
Kidde Corporation (A UTC Fire and Safety Company), prepare to receive an angry letter. Also, I will be visiting your CEO and board of directors at home in the middle of the night to scream at them at exactly 85 decibels for no reason.
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