After 5 years of loyal dedicated service, our metronome went on the fritz. We've used our metronome over the years as a means to help us keep our running cadence in check, such a small device yet so helpful...
Last night while we were hanging out having a relaxing evening, I could hear a beep, beep, beep. I thought somehow we must have bumped into our running bag and started the metronome. I went and pulled it out and could see the screen was black, and when I tried to turn the power off, it continued to beep, beep, beep! Bart said, "must be the battery going bad", so we tried to unscrew the back to remove the battery, but the tiny little screws would not budge. We put the metronome in the spare bedroom... beep, beep, beep! Next we put it under the stairs, but could still hear the faint, beep, beep, beep. "That things driving me nuts" I said, To which, Bart replied, "you have really good hearing". We then put it out in the garage far away from me being able to hear it in the hopes that the battery life would run out soon.
In the morning, I went into the garage and could not believe my ears, beep, beep, beep!
So, both of us being people of short patience, did the one and only thing we knew to do...
One whack and that was the end of it! ...and now for a moment of silence please.
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