Emergency alarm for elders
Let me set the stage for this story first, and then I’ll get to the subject. It’s kinda of a Texas thang to warm up a little before getting to the actual subject of things. Sometimes it’s just part of learning “How To Tawk Texan”.
We were in Austin visiting for the weekend and Saturday drove down to College Station for the Texas A&M Vs. Texas Tech game and 
while there we discovered the Aggies CAN play football and they are for real. ‘Course, we also hold the Texas Tech Red Raiders as special, but they just couldn’t handle the Aggies this year. The Aggies had an afternoon game and when we got back to Austin, we got to see the total collapse of the Texas Longhorns against the Baylor Bears.
The Baptists were so elated, they went into the front doors of the liquor stores in Austin and not through what an old friend named Ike Chaffin called the drive-thru Baptist window. Those Baptists even recognized some of their fellow church members where they usually don’t in that circumstance.
While visiting later in the evening, my brother’s wife told the story of an elderly friend of a friend who had been gardening in her backyard. The lady fell and couldn’t get up. Seems that particular lady had been a chicken fried steak and gravy lover all her life and was too overweight to get back on her feet.
She spent the night out in the backyard and was there when a concerned neighbor or relative found her. She did have a first alert or similar device with her, but it did not work and did not notify emergency service personnel or the alarm company for some reason. There was an unknown malfunction. That situation turned out OK, but it could have been serious.
Here is a solution to that problem. It’s a backup plan and I have talked about it here before a year or more ago.
A good emergency solution is to carry your car keys with you and know where the horn button is. It is a button on most automatic locking cars these days that also help forgetful folks like me locate their cars in parking lots. If that lady had activated the horn on her car, some neighbor would have eventually come to investigate why the durn horn keeps on honking and wouldn’t turn off.
Same thing if you think you have a prowler outside. Set off that car alarm and the entire neighborhood will be alerted and the intruders cannot shut it off. You can set off your alarm from inside the house in most instances. I do it from my second story window when I remember to lock the pickup.
Yes, having a commercial alert button with you is a good idea, but at least in this one instance, it did not work. The car horn button would have worked like a charm. Keep it by your bedside or if you are prone to falling and still work outside in the yard, carry it with you.
The car horn button is a cheap and easy solution to alerting neighbors in case of an emergency.
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I wore my Baylor Bear cap Saturday thinking all day to myself (& aloud to a few folks), “if we were just playing in Waco, we could beat those rascals this year!!” Needless to say I was too excited to go to sleep Saturday night.
Something tells me that I’m going to be too excited to go to sleep again tonight when the elephant crushes that jackass!!