PEOPLE--Get carbon monoxide detectors and smoke alarms and keep the batteries in them!!!!!! I knew someone whjo died from carbon monoxide poisoning, and it's an easy thing to avoid. Put them in the hall outside your bedroom, where they won't bug you and they won't go off from something silly, like making toast or whatever.

In the rental place we just left, the smoke alarm was in the kitchen and went of every time we cooked anything on the stove. Annoying.

Is your detector on the wall right above your bathroom door, too?

Yeah, pretty much.

I never ever close my bathroom door (unless I have company). How else is the cat gonna go to the bathroom if it needs to? Or, you know, supervise while I shower?

Um, our carbon monoxide detector is outside where the fire department told us to put it, but we'll be plugging it back in later, I promise.

PEOPLE--Get carbon Monoxide detectors and smoke alarms and keep the batteries in them!!!!!!

This is all part of my plan. I figured if I confessed my lack of functioning smoke detector, someone would shame me into doing something about it.

My work here is done.

I used to have a humidity detector until I moved it further from the bathroom and closer to the kitchen. Now it can fulfill it's true destiny and be a smoke detector. My CO detector has been sitting on my dresser (fully operable with battery) since the landlord gave it to me. What is the optimal placement for those?

I never ever close my bathroom door (unless I have company). How else is the cat gonna go to the bathroom if it needs to? Or, you know, supervise while I shower?

Mine likes to come in and use the litter box while I'm similarly occupied. She rarely comes in while I'm showering, but has occasionally decided that the bath towel I set on the sink before getting into the shower makes a great sitting cushion and gives me dirty looks when I open the shower curtain and tell her to get off my towel. I then reach my arm over and let it drip on her until she moves.

I never close the bathroom door. Comes from living alone for 8 years, and a bathroom door that had swelled so that it didn't shut easily.

I'm apparently a freak--I usually close the door if I'm showering. I have no idea why.

These days I also close my bedroom door before I go to sleep. Because I bought a clock to put in the bathroom and the second hand is SO LOUD. It's crazy.

Well, what are you supposed to do, if you are on vacation and dont' know your CO detector is going off?

Turn the oven off before you go?