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Last week I accidentally switched frequencies on the Alert-Your-Freedom-Is-Over monitor. Much to my surprise, I heard a babypalooza going on.
Contact.
Our baby monitor picked up an unsecured frequency. Crystal clear. We couldn't determine which neighbor it was but my husband told me to turn it off immediately.
So, arguing the need for homeland security, I turned the volume up as high as it could go. You'll never guess what I heard.
Nothing.
A toddler whining. A wife pleading. And a husband watching TV (way too loud I might add; the nerve, puh-leeze I'm trying to eavesdrop here guy).
I realize they likely can hear us too, should they ever get that desperate. I'm certain our boredom could beat up their boredom. Any day.
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LOL! You're hilarious!
Classic! We used to hear all sorts of zany things going on at the neighbors' house. Crying babies, rustling blankets, footsteps. Crazy stuff!
OH my, this just made me want to go try out our baby monitor. How funnny.
Calli
Sometimes I can hear my neighbor talking on her cordless phone through ours. It's a little weird but I like it....
Hahahaha!
I could totally hear my neighbor's phone conversations (at our old house). I use to wait until my husband went to bed, then try to see what good ole neighbor Nancy was up to. Nothing really, she was an older lady who lived alone. Then, the guilt set in and I went and bought a new, updated monitor.
Hilarious! Our monitor used to pick up the cordless phone calls of our elderly neighbors. It wasn't much fun to eavesdrop on *those* calls.
Popping back in to say sorry about your Packers. I REALLY wanted Brett (the hottest QB on earth) to go to the Super Bowl!
Our neighbor across the street once told me she heard me scolding my son, "I'm so upset with you I just don't know what to do!"
I was mortified; she was just happy she wasn't the only one losing her mind.
I have played that game. It is really boring, isn't it? ;)
I would be listening too. But I would die if anyone ever heard me.
We took out the two way radio and had the same thing happen. I got to talk to some kid (not one of mine) and also hear a great conversation....in Russian. I wonder if it was the mob?
Yea kick their bordom's butt! I live in the "special" part of town... if we can pick up a frequency above the police helicopter, we're in gooood shape ;)
Too funny!
This has happened to us!!! I "immediately" turned it off. I heard kids talking, the TV, and a baby. It was their baby monitor! They are our new neighbors . . . Now when I realize we left the monitor on, I can't stop thinking about what we've been doing.
Oooo that's funny. I've never picked anything up on Hailey's monitor, but I keep on hoping I will.
That happened to us once in our apartment complex and we could hear our neighbors, well, aheming.
We never told them. They were so conservative in the light of day that they would have DIED if they knew what we heard!!!
every time that happens here, i just hear the mom next door hollaring at her four boys. Makes you wonder what they hear. We are finally out of the monitor age since they can get there little behinds and walk right into out room!
this used to happen to us when we used those baby monitors. but we never heard anything interesting, either. it was SO disappointing, LOL!
ha ha. we've had that happen before, too.
I frequently pick up other monitors on our monitor...all I need is multiple crying babies that I don't even love!
lol
Funny!
Bradley
The Egel Nest
Too cool! OMG just realized, can you believe the things our neighbors have been able to hear!!!I'm running to see what I can pick up now!
Holy Schmoly -- now I'm super paranoid about our monitor being on...So, if our monitor has never picked up anyone else does that mean nobody else's monitor can pick up our's or is that just wishful thinking? It's mostly boring around here other than me singing totally off key to my baby. lol
~melody~
You are TOO funny. We can just call you Mama Geek the Spy.
I've heard of this, but never had the pleasure of a good eavesdrop. Maybe that is what I should be doing right now...awake, catching up on my blog reading...now where are those monitors..did I leave them in the closet?
I am peeing my pants. I love the "contact" line. and the "homeland security" one. You are so funny... You should stage a whole show for them in case they are listening.
This happened to us...could hear our neighbors phone conversations....I had to call her and let her know!! It was pretty embarrassing, but just wanted to make sure she wasn't listening to ours!!
Oooh, you should stage elaborate radio plays for the neighbors' benefit. MURDER plays. It can be like "Rear Window" but, you know, with baby monitors.
I smell a Lifetime movie somewhere in here: "Baby Monitor...OF FEAR" or "Mother, May I Monitor MURDER."
I get half, OK?
So, when are you trying that eavesdropping again? To beat that boredom, you know...
LOL! I've done that, too. Only I picked up one side of a telephone conversation. It frustrated me to no end that I couldn't hear the other side, too. It was quite the juicy chat :)
Heidi
That's Awesome!!!
You have NO idea how many times that happened to us when our kiddos were little.
As a matter of fact, my next door neighbor had a baby around the same time our #1 was born and we ended up buying the SAME monitor, so we had to agree on we got channel #1 and she got channel #2 because we kept hearing everything going on at each other's house.
Scary! ;)
Ha! Awesome! You really brighten my day, you know? Thank you for that!
That's great! Never happened to me, though. Too Bad. Sound entertaining.
That really is a fun past time. Well, the thought of it as fun. The reality is that it's really rather boring. But it seems like it's going to be fun.
It's so scary what those things can pick up! I better watch what I say about the neighbors a bit more. That might explain how they always call- when we are talking about them. Hmmm
That happened to us too. It really freaked us out at first. I kept hearing a baby cry and then I would go and check on our baby and he was fast asleep. I know. I'm so slow sometimes.
Thanks for the WhyMommy link. I'm happy to say some prayers for her and wish her well.
Your fellow Packer fan in mourning,
Kathryn
Ooooh - I have heard of that happening and always wished it would happen to me. I would be glued (I'm a little nosey)
HAHAHA That's funny. A movie has that thing happen with the frequency-change, but there's a little more excitement portrayed there...Nice comment there too below regarding your friend. I'll go over there and spread some of my positive thinking. Have a gr8 day :)
Hahaha! My monitors have never worked to do this. I don't know if it's sadder that I've tried or that there's nothing to pick up. *LOL*
p.s. i have bling for you.
"the need for homeland security" ...great argument!!
I hope to God no one ever hears us! LOL
I'm now singing I'm on a Mexican radio, whoa...
I hope today is better?
What is it about human nature that is drawn to what's going on behind closed doors?
Our baby monitor used to pick up someone's phone conversations. My dh never wanted to listen -- to me it was just funny listening to some lady ranting about, "She said... and "I said".... LOL
I fear what you will hear from my house!
lol
Our neighbors are boring too..but man is their baby loud.
Dude, I have to turn mine off b/c I know that we can hear our neighbor. God forbid they figure it out and hear me. Oh my!
can't blame you at all!
Good thing I never had one... :D
That's awesome!
We've picked up phone calls on our Baby Monitors lol.
that's so funny! man...i wish we heard cool things through our monitors. we once heard some mother creaming bloody murder at her child...it was so disturbing that turned it off...we have no idea who it was.
but that was over 2 years ago...nothing since. except these crazy weird electronic noises that make me think that aliens are trying to make contact!
I think I better go turn my baby monitor off now..... Ekkkkkkkk!
Dude, I would have totally popped some corn and pulled up next to that monitor with a brewski. You never know what could have happened next.
Oh no, I thought we were the only ones who could hear our neighbors! Looks like it's a pretty common thing. Isn't it fun though?!
LOL! I can't believe the guy was so insensitive... how are you supposed to eavesdrop with the TV blaring?
LOL, our monitor used to do that too! I never heard anything interesting, but it certainly makes you more aware of the sounds within your own house!!
btw, enjoying your blog, love your sense of humor, thanks for coming by mine!
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