In a message dated 1/5/99 12:13:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, tinystar@worldy.com writes: << >>the carbon monoxide detector keeps going off in my house but my mum thinks the basement looks too messy to have anyone over, so she said she'll wait for one of the cats to die so she knows its serious and then she'll call someone.<< << oh.my.god. is my mother, like, doing some sort of shared parenting thing? because we desperately need to get our ducts cleaned (i'm sure it's the reason for my super environmental sensitivity, plus the reason i'm all sniffly at home and get miraculously better when i go stay someplace else, even a place with cats or animals with fur that you'd think would stuff me up, but they don't) and she refuses to call someone >> i guess all our parents are concerned equally, because at our house the carbon monoxide detector going off annoyed them so much they took the batteries out, and tried to get me to believe it "went away'. ha. we never did get it checked out, but none of us has dropped dead yet so i guess its ok...who knows. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+