Does your washing machine beep at you when it’s finished its load? How about the microwave? The dryer? The oven?
The fridge if you take an extra minute to unload the groceries? The hair straightener if you pause between sizzles? The iron if it catches you daydreaming for 30 seconds?
Aaaaaargh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What I’m daydreaming about is a world without bossy machines!
Lucy says
Just the effing beeping microwave. Circa 1985, it is the largest oldest and crankiest bitch of a beeping microwave ever invented. I love her, but we FIGHT like cat and dog. Alright already with your beepin’ beeping…..
Tas says
But I do have to say as a chronically sleep deprived, vague mum, all that beeping has meant that my house hasn’t burnt down or flooded. I wish my saucepan would beep before the steamed vegies boiled dry π
Danielle says
here a Beep there a Beep everywhere a Beep Beep lol… yes i also hate the dredded machines that Beep as well π
Belinda says
I do like the tune my washing does at the end of the cycle. As for the rest of the beeping. Annoying!!!!
Felicity says
Yes they do.
It’s almost as bad as those nagging children you see [not my own] who are tugging at their Mother whining “Mum, mum, mum!”
The worst thing is when I talk back to them and tell them to be patient, I’m almost ready!
xx Felicity
Karen Wilson says
My washing machine plays a lovely little tune, it’s quite cute… until I get it stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
And my iron just quietly turns itself off and awaits my return. I decided against one that beeps because there is no use in an iron beeping at me to turn it off if I’ve gone out for the night and wont be back till tomorrow afternoon (it happened once…)
_vTg_ says
LOL, someone (old) once told me “you wouldn’t realise, but life used to be much quieter.”
I cope with the fridge cos it’s a useful alert, and Big-Bro-Roles-Are-To-Be-Followed will quickly stop browsing and shut the fridge if I say, “it’s about to beep…”
More annoying is the Fisher Price phone (now sans batterie in our house…) that has a carefully timed ring to catch the attention of a child just as they decide they could be playing with something else.
I don’t mind the little washing machine “I’m finished” ditty, but what I do mind is that there is a whole three minutes after that during which the door is locked to allow evacuation of the gremlins or whatever. Why sing a victory song when all I want to know is when I can hang out the washing?
Life In A Pink Fibro says
I am constantly bossed by machines. Even my car talks to me. It drives me crazy.
Gina says
Everything beeps at me – the appliances, my car, even my kid!!! I can’t escape!!
m.e (Cathie) says
hehee…I just ignore them!
well, everything except the oven timer that is.
happy March to you Ms Maxabella ♥
Sarah says
Thats the reason I HATE my new ovens. They beep incessantly once they’re at the temp I set for them. Not once as a gentle: “hey I’m all ready to go” no, five times in quick succession. Wish there was an off button somewhere.
Alice Becomes says
my washing machine is beeping at me right now. Grrr
though i must admit, i do heavily rely on my microwave timer to remind me that I have something cooking!
Gill xo
Vanessa says
None of them bother me except the bleeping microwave. It does my head in to race back to the kitchen before the next round of beeps in 30 seconds.
I used to be a neontatal intensive care nurse and after a holiday I would be so wound up upon returning to the endless beeping of machinery. All important beeps but if not turned off promptly by the nurse looking after the babe, I would stress.
Mama of 2 boys says
Haha! Funny you should mention it… the one that grinds me the most is the car beeper that goes off if I open the door or turn the engine off while the headlights are on. Sure, it is not THAT often this happens… but when it does… the bloody beeper goes berserk! I guess I should be thankful that SOMETHING is looking out for my battery’s sake :o/
Rhi@FlourChild says
Oh I hate all those beeps too. Microwave is the worst.
Due to very poor planning, our washing machine is actually IN our baby’s bedroom (or rather, he sleeps in what is meant to be a laundry… but it’s a huge room, complicated story). Anyway, he would happily sleep through the whirring of the machine in cycle, but the stupid beep wakes him up, so I can only ever wash when I know he is awake for hours. Sooooo annoying.
That is all! π
kirsty says
okay, i’m feeling a little left out here! my appliances must be ancient because i don’t own anything that beeps. except my car if you leave the keys in the ignition.
x
Christie - Childhood 101 says
And the tap tap sound of people’s iphones is very annoying (and unsociable as well!) I have an iphone but turn off the tap tap LOL
Cate says
My microwave beeps to tell me it’s done, and then if I haven’t taken the stuff out within a minute – it beeps again to *remind* me!!! pushy, pushy, pushy!!!
xxxCate
MomAgain@40 says
Hate the morning alarm on my cell the most! π
Kelly says
Life would be so sweet without beeps ☼
A Country Wife says
Ha ha, love this. My life is plagued by bleeping machines that beep me relentlessly!
Avery says
My washing machine is even cleverer than that.
If I leave my dirty pants lying around in my bedroom, it sends my wife to use sentences with lots of beeps in.
Glen says
Damn I was logged in with a different Google account (from RBU) and didn’t realize. You probably already guessed but that comment from Avery was me – Glen π
The Clip Cafe says
Try the ikea lifts!!! Its a lady telling you to “Please stand inside the yellow line” like 50 million times!!! lol. We get a new washing machine tomorrow….have to see if they still make them without those beepers!! π
katiecrackernuts says
Amen to that. Even my Twitter dashboard, Hootsuite, rudely tells me I’ve been ‘asleep’. Ah, no, I’ve been busy writing more than 140-character grabs.
Actuary Mom says
I hate the washer and dryer beeps!
pepper says
my old washing machine possibly had the longest I-have-finished-gratitious-tune I have every heard, it went for a full minute! And my fridge made a song when I plugged it in. When I PLUGGED IT IN! a song for something you do once! Far out brussel sprout. crazy times!
Pepper x
Brenda @ Mira Narnie says
he he he – some of my appliances are too old to give me that BEEP – and this is why i don’t have an electronic organiser and i don’t wear a watch (too much beeping!!!)
xx
Melinda's Stories says
AHHHH the beeping, my car drives me mental, it beeps at everything. It even beeps telling me the passenger hasn’t got a seat belt on…….The passenger is my handbag.
Tatter Beans says
A life without bleeps.. ye that would be nice
Britt @ absolute alaia says
hahaha and here’s me waiting for the washing machine to scream that it’s ready for me to empty it π
HikerRD says
Not infrequently, our smoke detector lets off its shrill sound, generally as I am entering REM sleep. The worst part is that, like car alarms in NYC, we start to simply ignore it, and wait for it to pass. Hopefully this coping mechanism won’t land us in deep doo-doo…
Jodie at Mummy Mayhem says
I hate it when I’m re-stocking the fridge after grocery shopping. It’s beeps. Then after a while longer it beeps a lot then turns the light off on me!!! I have to close the door and re-open and move quickly!
Tricia Rose says
So LOUD in the small hours when I’m reheating a Little Snack! and I deliberately thwart my GPS, just for the spurious feeling of power.
tea with lucy says
…and the car. if the door’s left open, lights left on, keys left in, you haven’t got to the seatbelt quick enough or put a heavy parcel on passengers seat…
Megan says
I have the beeping fridge, washing machine and microwave and it does get so frustrating. I tell my microwave I’m coming. I beep back at my washing machine and I tell my fridge I’m not finished. Beeps are so annoying!
Although, now that I am at my Dad’s and using his ‘trusty’ old old washing machine and it doesn’t beep, I keep forgetting to hang out the washing because no one (or no thing) is reminding me!
and tea with lucy – god yes the car beeping annoys me the most!
Sarah says
THAT DAMN FRIDGE HAS NO IDEA HOW LONG IT TAKES TO UNPACK THE SHOPPING.
Bron says
I actually quite like the bleeps. But even the bleeps don’t ensure that I actually get the load out of the machine after it’s done. Damp, stinky clothes. Ergh.
Naturally Carol says
Or what about all those bleeping appliances that have inbuilt digital clocks in them…whenever the power goes out or daylight saving happens you have to change them all. Except that I don’t and I have all of these glow in the dark clocks telling me a different time with every second!
ClaireyH says
The microwave is sounding a bit sick this week, it is about to get tossed and I think we might try life without it, as for the new fridge, beeeeeep, beeeeep. Every time you are just getting the milk.
the washer I can set to wash and dry so that the washing is done while I am asleep, but now sometimes mid sleep I hear the thing beeping that it is done for the day.
beep, beep.
Katie says
My washing tends to stay in the washing machine all day before it gets hung out, so I am so used to the beeping I don’t even hear it anymore. The fridge though … that annoys me!
fairchildstreet says
I am always going on about bossy machines. Don’t get me started
Miss Ruby says
my washing machine beeps at me even if it hasn’t finished! it has “moods” and if it’s not happy or doesn’t “like” something it beeps – i’ve learned to ignore it.
~x~
alexkeller says
you know that clock in the photo? i bet it’s tick tocking would drive you mad. i had one of these
http://www.etsy.com/listing/68418454/vintage-seth-thomas-wall-clock?ref=sr_gallery_12&ga_search_query=school+clock&ga_search_type=vintage&ga_facet=vintage
plugged in for an hour. then i sold it.
Oh, My Darling says
Maybe five minutes ago, my dryer let off a very loud buzz to inform me that it’s done. Despite using it quite a bit, I jump every darn time.