r/BenignExistence • u/Evening-Anteater-422 • 7d ago

Smoke alarm

I own a house 2 hours from where I live. It's currently between tenants.

I got a call early this morning from a neighbour letting me know that a) the house wasn't on fire and b) the smoke alarm was going off

I decided to go for a nice drive to check the house out, change the battery, and run errands in the area.

On the way I realised I would need a ladder. I stopped at a hardware store and selected a nice aluminium step ladder.

I got to the house, changed the battery, petted the neighbours dog, then went to Ikea for meatballs.

It was a pleasant day.

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u/regardkick 7d ago

I forgot what sub this was for a hot second. And so after almost every thought I was like oh snap it really was on fire, or the ladder fell off the truck after he bought it, or something big and expressive.

So it was just really nice to know that it ended with some meatballs!

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u/Evening-Anteater-422 7d ago

Ha! It was a perfectly benign day!

I also had an ice cream cone.

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u/experientialsponge 3d ago

Me too!!! Pleasant outcome for OP and me, lol!

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u/bananers24 6d ago

As someone who recently dealt with the owner of the unoccupied unit next to mine who didn’t consider it at all important to replace the dying smoke detector batteries, THANK YOU for being so quick to handle this

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u/NikNakskes 7d ago

Wouldn't the neighbours have lend you a ladder? It sounds like that kind of place where people lend stuff to eachother.

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u/Afraid_Wallaby_5995 6d ago

Maybe OP will now be able to lend their ladder to the neighbours 😊

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u/nothingidentifying_ 6d ago

I love this post 😌

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u/CandyLady19 5d ago

I love this subreddit. It's my sanity 'reclaimer'.

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u/Remote-Dependent4571 3d ago

This went from a smoke alarm emergency to a full day of errands and IKEA meatballs. Glad the house was fine! Honestly sounds like a pretty nice way to spend the day. Were the meatballs worth the two hour drive?