Alarms

I have spent the last two weeks house/ dog sitting for a friend of mine. It is a beautiful, five bedroom house and I loved every minute of it. My last night there however was 'interesting'.

I was lying in bed watching Scandal; house alarm on, dogs inside and downstairs, safe haven locked and I was drifting off to sleep. Suddenly I heard an alarm go of. I pause my episode, and I listen. It doesnt sound like my house- what a relief!. Earlier on in the evening the alarm went off somewhere in the compound, so I figured it was the same one.

I was wrong.

I got all comfortable again, then I heard a knock on the front door and the doorbell ring. The dogs started growling and barking. I felt sick. I tiptoed to the bathroom window so I could open it to look outside. There at the door is the askari (security guard). He asks me if everything is ok as my alarm is going off. I freak. I didnt realise it was mine. All sorts of things are going on in my mind now. The stupid thing though, is that to turn the alarm off, you need to unlock the safe haven and go downstairs where the potential danger is. Now, because the dogs are downstairs and are barking at the guy outside (and it was most likely them that set the vibration sensors off), I figured that I was ok. I asked the askari to wait by the door just incase while I grabbed a bottle of doom. At least I could blind someone if I was in danger! All was fine though. The dogs were bouncing around, no-one was inside the house and I turned the alarm off. 

I will admit though, I had trouble sleeping that night!