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!

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    2. This just happened to me!! Cleaned the kitchen counters with lysol spray, got ready to leave the house and before I got out the door, the screeching started. I was pretty certain that it was the lysol spray, but checked the furnace room, no gas readings there! Came to the computer and googled and this was the first site that came up. Thanks.

    3. Wow. Who knew?
      Carbon monoxide detectors and golf cart battery chargers also do not mix. Especially when you forget that the battery has been charging for three days…
      Just stopped by to say thanks for visiting my blog. Come on by any time at all!

    6. Ahhhhh, yes…the Lysol. I have a can of it on my kitchen counter right now. Stepson came down with H1N1 just yesterday. I love the little booger, but as soon as his dad got home today, I took a shower and threw the clothes I was wearing in the wash. When his mom picks him up later, I will be spraying everything he touched with Lysol!

    7. That cracks me up! I Had no idea it would set off a carbon minoxide detector! How funny! I know how you feel though – germs gotta DIE!

    13. That has happened to us before as well. Our gas detector was so sensitive that our dog would walk by it and fart and the damn thing would go off! Yeah, umm…. I WISH I was kidding about that one. Sadly, I’m not!