An Alarming Evening

We had a fun time last night. Rather I had a fun time and my wife nearly had a heart-attack. Due to the severe weather conditions we have been facing my wife’s job has been calling her very early in the morning to inform her they are closed. We have not really had a need for the phone in our bedroom until now, and having it on a short cord meant climbing out of bed, crawling over me, and trying to talk without freezing. Last night I decided to put a longer phone cable on the phone and move the cursed thing to my wife’s nightstand. While doing this I decided to inspect the other cables by the phone box, because one looked like an extra Cable TV cable. A minor point, but considering I believe our other cable to be disconnected under the house, finding a new cable would mean a greater chance of finding a live cable, and a greater chance we could watch TV in bed (oh the depths of my sloth). While inspecting this rouge cable (mind, it is dark) I found what turned out to be a button. I found out it was a button after I had depressed it, and my wife started going nuts (I pushed her button!). My wife went nuts because there was a new noise in our house, a noise that coincided with the pushing of the button. At the time all I could think was, "Cool. I push this button and something happens. Now, what is it that is happening?" It dawned on me that the noise I was hearing was the alarm, and the button I pushed must have been a panic button. It worked. My wife was panicking. We do not have (or cannot find) a working key to the alarm control panel, and all she could think of was to get the crowbar and pry open the box. Instead I calmly (it must have been because I was tired that I was calm) walked to the circuit breaker box and started flipping switches until the alarm stopped.

We still cannot find the key that will open the alarm box. And we now know that our alarm is not wired into the police; we also know our neighbors decided to ignore our alarm, maybe they were waiting to see who would come slipping down our iced driveway, after all no one can really get around out here. All in all I thought it was funny and a tad fun, but my poor wife was wide awake for quite some time.