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Silencio!


--by annefitzg, posted Feb 3, 2014
The elderly Peruvian lady across the hall from me does not speak English. When her smoke detector started beeping and announcing "Battery low, please replace.", she did not understand and was frightened. I disconnected it but could not stop the annoying noise. After asking around other neighbors if anyone had the right battery, with no results, I got dressed, caught the bus and went to the store for another battery. Got the battery in and stopped the beeping and -- "Silencio!"
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Shumaila Hussain Shahani wrote: So nice of you :) i hope more people do stuff for others like you did.
Mish wrote: Wow! Awesome of you!
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