Every week we trek out to this kitty's mom's house. Every week, she ambles around the house, curling around our ankles, jumping onto the wood-fired cook stove, sniffing around the pots and pans, begging for food, crawling into and out of the oven. She's a calico. No, the white spots on her aren't all that white. Every week, we sit in the living room, read together and sing. This week, we found kitty perched way up high over the door into the kitchen/dining area. That boxy tube-thing is the heat duct (I think). When we started to sing, she very prissily and sniffily lifted her head, uncurled her tail, stood up and huffily climbed down and stalked out. Really. I guess she doesn't like our singing. Humph.
Kitty lives at the house where the Carbon Monoxide incident happened. My darling mom sent 2 CO monitors, complete with batteries after that. We took one of them out to her house and left it there. Last week, we noticed the monitor on her table with the batteries beside it. Heh. What to do when the pesky thing won't quit beeping, We thought. This week we asked- Why's the monitor laying there with the batteries beside it?
Oh, she said. My husband needed batteries for the flashlight.
The thing is, the batteries are a commodity. Where she lives, getting new batteries for anything involve a whole lot of walking, a bus trip, leaving her mom alone for awhile. I guess we know how CO monitors rate. Of somewhat less value than a flashlight with batteries.
it happened to me recently that I was trading the left-over batteries in our appartment between the alarm clock and the appartment buzzer/phone. now...which one is more important? ;) needless to say, things were better after I did a trip to the local drugstore!!
ReplyDeleteps: we should really appreciate how close we are to stores, here. thanks for the reminder that, in some places, it is still quite a trip to buy anything!
To funny - the cat thing, that is.. ;) About the batteries, maybe someone nedds to invest in some more the next time they happen to be in town!
ReplyDeleteOh no! That reminds me...we need to shop for another carbon monoxide detector.
ReplyDeleteanother thing about batteries here- a lot of them aren't much good even if they're 'brand new'. Lots of cheap stuff around, lots of fake/pirated stuff that's not much good.
ReplyDeleteHusb did get batteries for the flashlight and the detector was rearmed.
Definitely keep your CO monitors in good batteries.