Night terrors

There's no way I'm going to sleep properly now.

I knew a new house would hold interesting discoveries but this is too much. My partially operational alarm system, for which I have no key and a PIN number which sent it into some weird mode 2 weeks ago I can't get out of, sprang to life of its own accord, flashing and beeping. I was literally ready to flee the house, terrified the whole thing was going to go off (and of course without a working PIN I couldn't shut it off if this happened).

And you know what caused this? My WASHING MACHINE.

I feel slightly better knowing this was the cause (and I'm certain - dammit, the flashing and beeping only occurred during the wash and rinse cycles), but I had adrenaline rushing through my bloodstream for about 12 minutes continuously (ie, a wash cycle). In that time I had rung an alarm monitoring company (not mine, I don't have one yet) and tried to explain through rising panic what was happening. I rang the same guy back later to tell him the cause and he said "that is bizarre".

Quite.

Excuse me while I peel myself off the wall I was climbing.