theclemsonkid
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So here is a fun little story. Last night driving back from Cleveland (which is about an hour from my house) my clutch burns up in my car. It's a little before midnight, so by the time I get a tow, and get back home, it's well after 1am. By the time I fall asleep it's almost 3am.
I usually get up early to get to the shop, but I have the baking covered this morning, so I can get a little sleep and then come in and run the front of house at 10am till close. So I fall asleep...
This is where things get weird.
All the sudden, out of nowhere, I hear an alarm BLARING. Like, picture in the movies, when the hero is running out of the bad guys hideout, and the red lights are flashing and that siren is blaring... This is happening. Like right now. It takes me a second to even realize where I am. Turns out, I'm still in bed. So my heart starts to race, and I immediately jump out of bed to assess the situation. At this point my dog is going berserk too from this alarm that's going off. I scramble under the bed to start to get my Glock out, thinking that this is the security alarm in my house, and someone has broken in. In the few seconds it took to get to my gun, I remembered I don't even HAVE a security system in my house. Now I start putting one and one together, and begin to look for where this noise is coming from.
I look down, and it's my iPhone making all the noise. I look on the screen, it's a freaking AMBER ALERT for some mom and daughter in West Virginia, of all places. I finally start to calm down after I realize this was all some stupid alert on my phone.
Apparently on the new operating systems for iPhone and Android systems, there is this built in alarm notification for Amber Alerts, Emergencies, and Weather Events. Factory settings have it turned on. I very quickly learned how to turn it off.
The moral of the story... If it's the middle of the night, and you hear some alarm that sounds like your home is about to self destruct... don't fret, it's probably just your phone telling you about a missing teen two states away...
I usually get up early to get to the shop, but I have the baking covered this morning, so I can get a little sleep and then come in and run the front of house at 10am till close. So I fall asleep...
This is where things get weird.
All the sudden, out of nowhere, I hear an alarm BLARING. Like, picture in the movies, when the hero is running out of the bad guys hideout, and the red lights are flashing and that siren is blaring... This is happening. Like right now. It takes me a second to even realize where I am. Turns out, I'm still in bed. So my heart starts to race, and I immediately jump out of bed to assess the situation. At this point my dog is going berserk too from this alarm that's going off. I scramble under the bed to start to get my Glock out, thinking that this is the security alarm in my house, and someone has broken in. In the few seconds it took to get to my gun, I remembered I don't even HAVE a security system in my house. Now I start putting one and one together, and begin to look for where this noise is coming from.
I look down, and it's my iPhone making all the noise. I look on the screen, it's a freaking AMBER ALERT for some mom and daughter in West Virginia, of all places. I finally start to calm down after I realize this was all some stupid alert on my phone.
Apparently on the new operating systems for iPhone and Android systems, there is this built in alarm notification for Amber Alerts, Emergencies, and Weather Events. Factory settings have it turned on. I very quickly learned how to turn it off.
The moral of the story... If it's the middle of the night, and you hear some alarm that sounds like your home is about to self destruct... don't fret, it's probably just your phone telling you about a missing teen two states away...
