Monday, January 10, 2011

What?

Fox News was on in the dining room while the BCS bowl game was on in the living room. My grandpa was in the dining room with the lights off sitting approximately three feet from the TV screen. My grandma and I were sitting in the living room with the lights on at a healthy distance of one living room's width. TVs blaring loudly in both rooms, naturally.
I had been sitting watching the game for about 15 minutes noticing that there was a beeping noise coming from somewhere. I had just assumed it was from some clip on Fox News. But after hearing it for that 15 minutes, I realized that something in the house was beeping. I got up and quickly realized it was coming from the kitchen stove. I turned on the lights and my grandpa turned around in his chair looking at me. I stopped and looked at the beeping stove which read "F1" on its screen.
M grandpa, not having heard the beeping, asked, "Are you wanting to make something?"
Somewhat surprised that he didn't hear this beeping, I said, "Nah, the stove is beeping and it says F1 on the screen here. Has that ever happened before?"
"Boy, I don't think so. Grandma did the self-cleaning mode on this yesterday, I wonder if that messed it up somehow."
By this time my grandma had made it to the kitchen wondering what the fuss was about. It's about to go off...
"Gloria, what did you do for the self-cleaning mode."
"What?"
"Did the self-cleaning mode mess up the oven here?"
"WHAT??"
"WHAT DID YOU DO FOR THE SELF-CLEANING MODE??"
I had pinned myself against the counter trying to get out of the way of the eyesight between my grandparents. After hearing them raise their voices, I wondered if we would have to be yelling if the two TVs that were twenty feet from each other did not have their volumes up at 46. It was really loud in this house! But my grandma cooly replied, "Well, I just pushed this and flipped this."
We didn't figure out the problem, but after resetting the power, it stopped beeping. And really, it only helped me out because I was the only one who could hear the beeping in the first place! The lights were turned off again and they resumed their respected seats at their respected TVs. The house was again ringing with sounds from blaring TVs of bowl games and Fox News.

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