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just to be safe thing that you did that ended up saving your butt later.

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It didn't save my butt, but my mom's. She and I were home alone and I was getting ready to go to a

party. I came upstairs and I found her with the carbon monoxide detector in pieces on the coffee

table. She said that it was beeping and apparently once years ago in our last house,

one was malfunctioning and giving a false alarm, so I guess she just assumed that it was happening

again. I shrugged it off and continued getting ready. I was about to leave, but something was nagging

at me and she was insisting that it was fine. After some arguing with her, I said, no, we're calling

the fire department, so I did. They came and the levels of carbon monoxide were so high in the

basement that they said that anyone sleeping down there would be dead already. Our cats were

vomiting from the poisoning and we didn't realize. I guess the filter on the furnace was so clogged

that it was pumping out carbon monoxide. One of the firefighters pulled me aside and said that if

I hadn't called, I likely would have come home to my mom dead in her bed. Then beneath that,

we have a similar story from Bo Didley. Me and my siblings almost never were. One night before we

were born, my mom complained that the furnace wasn't working because it was too cold. My dad went to

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