Tinnitus

[Falcopops]

We had my wee boy's 6th birthday party on Saturday and the obligitory parents piss up afterwards, makes tidying up so much easier when you can't remeber doing it!

So eveyone has left and I'm watching an old Frankenstein movie and finishin of a beer when I became aware of a high pitched whistle in the room. Now I've been known to hear the odd noise now and again that no one (even the dog) can't hear so initially I thought it was that, but it didn't follow me and was deffo only in the sitting room.

So I spent about and hour trying to figure what it was, about 2am Mrs Falcopops woke up and although she agreed there was a noise reckoned it would be gone by morning so I retired defeated.

On Sunday the noise was still there. I spent 2 hours trying to find it again and ended up tripping each of the circuits then the whole house to try and stop the noise, but it still went on.

I reckoned it must be the house alarm as it has a backup battery, but I couldn't open it up. I got a mate round who's a sparky and he couldn't figure it. Killed all the power and it was still there, so he reckoned it was the alarm too. So were just about to butcher the alarm box and preparing ourselves for the worst with earplugs at hand, when my daughter opened the drawer to her Dora dressing table and we all noticed the noise getting a bit louder.

Turned out to be a pedometer in the drawer that had failing batteries.

Oh how we laughed

[AJFalco]

It's times like that I'm grateful to the inventor of the hammer

[snapdragon]

note for the future - always buy toys that state "No batteries required"

We had an hourly beep in the house that wherever it 'seemed' to be coming from, it wasn't
turned out to be a cheap market watch that the dragon had bought to strap to bike bars - it's on the bike now I finally found the blighter, and playing at being an alarm beep

[Kwackerz]

I was plagued by something like that for about 2 months. Thought it was the gas detector thing, but nope, then thought smoke detector... nope... fridge playing up.. checked the books for telltale alarms... nope... after stripping the kitchen out one pissed off saturday it turned out to be a McDonald's toy with a beep going off as something was pushed against it in a drawer.

My how we laughed..NOT! I was the only one who could hear it too, the others never being in the room at the right time

[Willopotomas]

had similar with one of our eldests toys.. it's a bubble Thomas thing which plays a tune and blows bubbles.. The circuits had got wet and it started to make a noise similar to a pipe venting.. not a whoosh, more like a steady mid-pitched whistle. I thought the boiler was about to pop (in the same room as said bubble thing), so moved the family out of the house while i went to investigate.. bear in mind that this was in the middle of the night and it was snowing outside.. I wasn't best impressed when i found.. neither was Mrs Willopotomas. Eh well, revenge was delt on the smiling little bubbly twat of a thing!

[Samray]

Eh well, revenge was delt on the smiling little bubbly twat of a thing!

No way to speak of your eldest !

[D-Rider]

While we're on similar confessions .....

When the kids were little, one summer's night I was clearing up in the garden in the twilight and spotted this strange creature down where the kids had been playing earlier.
I couldn't work out what on earth this thing was .... it just stood there still, staring at me.
Well in the spirit of David Attenborough I thought I'd better not let this moment of natural history pass unrecorded and went to fetch the camera to record it for science and posterity.

Didn't really need to wait for the film to be developed as when the sun came up the next morning, it was still there commanding its territory.

I do now have some very good pictures of a Boglin - a rubber toy creature that the boys used to play with. It wasn't this one but you get the idea:



..... still not lived that one down ....

[Samray]