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safe and sound
January 15th, 2009 at 10:13 pm by wRitErsbLock in Mindless MeanderingsOne of the things my MIL and I have been arguing about is the alarm. See, I believe if you have home security systems, you should use them. When I’m home, if I’m in the bedroom, I set the alarm. I know when I’m back there with the door closed, I cannot always hear the alarm chirp when a door or window is opened. Ever since I became aware of that vehicle following me on runs, I have been paranoid at home.
MIL, on the other hand, gets mad at me when I set the alarm and she’s in the house. I don’t care. She doesn’t hear me when I’m talking to her five feet away, she doesn’t hear me when I holler at her through her bedroom door, she certainly won’t hear someone breaking in at the front of the house. Setting the alarm, while annoying her because she has to turn it off before she can go get a drink from the garage, gives me piece of mind. And isn’t that part of the point of having an alarm in the first place? She might find it less cumbersome if we upgraded to this bad boy:
Touchless! Just wave the tag to disarm. Frankly, I need that since I always, always guess the wrong alarm code before I get the right code entered. We picked a number that’s easy for Ma to remember, not one that’s easy for me to remember!
Do you have an alarm? Do you remember to use it? We didn’t use our alarm for like the first year we lived here. I can’t remember what started us using it, but something spooked us and reminded us that we should be setting the alarm.
There’s something comforting about having a security company monitoring the system, too. Knowing that if my alarm goes off, someone will call and check on me (or my MIL, since, really, that’s who I worry most about). She thinks I’m just out to annoy her, but I truly worry about my MIL. That’s why we have the alarm, it’s why we have her carry pepper spray, and it’s why we gave her a window-breaking tool for her car. We want her to be prepared and be safe.
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We’ve got an alarm system in the house, pretty old-school. It doesn’t get set, because I am 100% certain that I’ll set it off at o’darkthirty letting a cat in/out. I think we would be able to hear someone breaking in, as the house stay pretty quiet.
The scenario I worry about is when someone breaks in while we are in bed, the floor creak and the bed makes noise when you shift, so it would alert the bad guy when Hubby reaches down for the rifle under the bed (let alone the tinkling of the strap against the gun. I don’t think that maneuver is possible to do silently. See, I want to kill the bad guy inside my house so he doesn’t get to break into another house again. I don’t want him scared off.
yes, ideally, the bad guy gets dead. I applaud every time i hear a news story about a criminal getting shot by a law abiding citizen with a concealed carry license, or an armed home owner.
The best alarm is a dog. I sell insurance and still think that is true. Now, a fire alarm may be a different story.
we have a dog and an alarm. The dog keeps the bad guys out of all but one room. At least that’s what happened when the fuckers broke in. The alarm keeps them all the way out.
Our alarm has remote controls like those for the car. Better than the tap, IMO, since it lights up and you can set the alarm from anywhere in the house or yard.
up in ga, i used our alarm religiously. we had them put motion detectors right outside our bedroom and i had a key fob to turn it on and off from bed. i would have never felt secure there without one (not because it wasn’t a nice neighborhood but because i am still a skeerdy cat since the robbery). down here, i don’t ever feel unsafe. i guess i figure only spiderman would bother me on the 23rd floor (which may be a false sense of security but it’s so nice to not worry over it for the first time in 9+ years)
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