How to Survive Life in the Suburbs

Fun With Lysol

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Two little girls were tucked all snug in their beds, with visions of germs alight in their heads.
Gross!

My sweet girls were doing their best to fight the germs that had been racking their bodies for four long and crappy days. Drinking their liquids, washing their hands, resting and sleeping.
I was doing my utmost to help them. Dosing tylonel, making soup, doling out Popsicles, prescribing ginger ale, worrying…feeling helpless to help my coughing sick babies.

Finally by 11pm at night, all was quiet. I had done all I could for the day and it was time to turn in. I felt helpless.

Then I spotted the mighty Lysol can.

I had already scrubbed every counter, wiped down the floors, but perhaps a good spray of Lysol on those door knobs and light switches before I went to bed would be just the thing.
A big fat spray to KILL all those big bad germs.

Pssssst

Psssst

Pssssst

Take that you big bad germs.

Die virus die.

Psssst.

Then cutting through the silence of my blissfully quiet home was a wailing siren.
A screech.
A BLARE.

ModernDad came screaming down the hall!

It was the Carbon Monoxide Detector?

WTH?

He tore the batteries out and threw them on the floor.

Could it be?

I dashed to my trusty computer and googled.

Yep.

Lysol can SET OFF a carbon monoxide detector.

I’m leaving that baby unplugged for a week!
If I have to choose between fighting the scary H1N1 OR the remote possibility of invisible gasses I’m tackling germs this week.

Note to all other Germaphobe Mommies out there…Lysol and Carbon Monosixde Dectors…they don’t mix baby!

    • Comments

    1. I have a sick kid too. Guess I won’t be using the Lysol! Although, I must admit, I’m tempted to experiment; maybe that’s a good way to test the detector.
      Good story…don’t know whether to keep my mouth hanging open with surprise, or to laugh!
      LOL!
      Take care of the babies.

    2. I don’t get that…it seems totally random. How is it that Lysol can set off the alarm? Technology is weird.

      I hate my carbon monoxide detector…it’s so loud and has a nice big button on the front for “testing” that exactly at toddler height. I only keep it plugged in to make my mother happy!

    5. Living here in China, I have often thought, “My kingdom for a can of lysol!” I used to be a huge germaphobe thanks to my years as a Zoology major studying parasites. I seem to have gotten over that lately, it simply became a losing battle over here. On the positive side, I bet my immune system has never been stronger than it is right now. I’ve been exposed to germs I never dreamed of.

      I had no idea lysol could set off detectors, good to know!

      So sorry your babies have been sick, hope they feel better very soon!!! And that you keep healthy, too.

    8. I love Lysol! On door nobs, phones, remotes, keyboards, toilets, garbage. If only I could spray other people. LOL. Hope your little ones get better soon!

    11. WOW. Who would have known????
      I hope the girls are feeling better soon.
      PS. I do this with lysol too…don’t forget to hit the phones with it too. 😉

    14. OMG, that must have sacred the hell out of you having that alarm come on.

      I’m with you, go with fighting the germs at least for this week.

      Hugs to your little ones, I hope they are feeling better soon.