Paris Trip
Posted by By swys at 2 December, at 12 : 23 PM Print
The article written by Alonso Kramer
Last year, while my husband and I were in Paris, we received a phone call in the middle of the night. A TransAtlantic phone call is on the list of things that I never again want to receive. It was adt Maine, informing us that the burglary alarm had gone off at our house. Our house that, let me remind you, was currently separated from us by an ocean. Both our dog and our cat were alone at the house (we’d hired a drop-in pet sitter for the trip). They asked if we’d like them to notify the police. We obviously said yes and waited nervously by the phone. It turned out to be a false alarm; the pet sitter had forgotten to lock the front door and our very precocious dog had set off the alarm trying to scratch at the door. We were so relieved, but it got me thinking—what if it had been a fire instead of a (fake) break-in? Or what if it had been a carbon monoxide leak? We would have never known in time to do anything about it, and our pets would have been trapped inside the house. That was when I realized how important the alarm monitoring was to me. It is not something I would ever be willing to give up.
