The office is off of the master bedroom, and unfortunately,
doesn’t have a ceiling fan. It does have
pass-through windows that open into the living room, though, so I turned on the
ceiling fan in the living room and opened the windows of the office.
View from one of the windows of the office into the living room. Yes, those are The Lawyer's feet, as he's sitting in the living room doing work.
About 10 minutes into my questions, I heard a loud sound
that sounded like “DING!” It was sort of like when you hit the side of a glass
with a knife for a toast, except magnified by...a lot. I anticipated a crash to summarily follow, because
it sounded loud enough for a glass to have fallen and then shattered on the
kitchen floor. But, there was no crash.
The Lawyer was in the kitchen fixing the dishwasher, so I
yelled,
“What happened? Are
you OK!”
He hollered back across the living room that was separating
us.
“Yeah, I’m fine. What
was that noise?”
Uh oh.
You kind of don’t want to ever be in a situation where the
other person in your home is not responsible for a loud, ominous sound.
We both left our respective locations, searching for a glass
possibly settling in the recycling box or a new notification of some kind that
came from The Lawyer’s phone. After a
few minutes, we gave up, decided that it must have come from the hallway (even
though it so clearly did not), and I started walking back towards the office.
When I got to the living room, which I needed to walk
through to get to the office, I froze in my tracks. This is what I saw.
Except, imagine that fan spinning on high, while it appears
to be falling out of the ceiling. I
screamed and leapt for the switch on the wall to turn it off.
The Lawyer hasn’t even lived in this condo for a year, so he
was obviously overjoyed to have to deal with the fan—while he was already fixing the
dishwasher. Thankfully, once he climbed
up there to reattach the fan, he realized that it was just the outer cover of
the fan attachment that had gotten loose and fallen down.
The loud “DING!” was the sound of the cover hitting the
metal on the fan below. And basically,
it was terrifying.
So yes, internet, I will accept this as karma for teasing The Lawyer about his (apparently completely founded) fear of geese!
So yes, internet, I will accept this as karma for teasing The Lawyer about his (apparently completely founded) fear of geese!
(Of note: I started writing this entry while The Lawyer climbed up on the ladder to fix the fan. He decided to race me to see if he could finish fixing the fan before I could write this blog. Seeing as how I was once a professional writer, I won. Speaking of winners...(see how I transitioned right there)...the winner of the CampusBookRentals.com giveaway is below! Congrats!)
9 comments:
I gotta say this situation would have been scary to go through, but what would have been funny would be to see the incident from your view in the office looking through the window and if the lawyer was still sitting in the chair. After hearing that sound the Lawyer would have looked up and possibly jumped 10 feet in the air. Hahahaha I totally would have.
I do love your transitions! I'm terrible at that, I just want to say one point and go on to the next without making any connections or transitions.
Thirdly I don't see the winner's name fyi.
I see it now. Sorry to be a bother.
Zazzy- No problem! That's what I get for trying to be artsy with cut/pasting the winner's name. And, THANK GOODNESS that The Lawyer wasn't sitting right under that thing! It was bad enough seeing it from another room!
HA! I am just imagining that fan spinning and flying toward me. Like a horror movie! Scurry!
Dang I missed a giveaway? You should come enter mine!
http://www.grandpooba.blogspot.com/2012/05/my-memories-suite-giveaway-free-stuff.html
Yikes! Glad it didn't go flying and the Lawyer!
Really, was there even any hopes of the lawyer finishing first? I think not. :)
This is such a fear of mine! Madly whirling fan careening toward earth - not fun! Glad that everything turned out okay!
You are a fast poster. I'm not. Which is why I only blog once a week these days. I've been missing reading you. I need to catch up. I love that you're still with the lawyer though. Don't tell him I said that. He'll get a big head and stuff.
Long time reader, first time commenter....
I used to own an electrical contracting business, and I used to put up those ceiling fans all the time. In general? They're not made to withstand being on 'high' for any long period of time. We keep ours on medium, always, since we have 4 small people running around and I'd rather they remain upright rather than flattened versions of themselves.
Pooba- That's so funny! I did that same giveaway! What you made looks WAY better than what I did, though.
YDW- Lol...I don't know why men even challenge us. I was done writing that blog before he even got back to the condo with the ladder.
LifeofaDocWife- Yes! Thank you! It was so scary.
IA- Awww...your secret is safe! He doesn't read the blog anyway.
Jess- Whaaa? OK, noted! We don't usually leave it on high, because The Lawyer has A/C too, but I'll make sure it stays on a very safe medium speed. (And The Lawyer went and inspected all of the rest of the fans in the condo too, because we're FL people! We like our fans on!)
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