This needs to be on a 5 below t-shirt

It may not work for you and your child because you know the difference. However, it will work as a joke for other people because they will not know.

The beeps are very different, so I'm afraid your fix doesn't really work either.

Yes - I believe it's effectively required by law in most places nowadays so it has multiple sources of power to increase the odds of it working when needed.

Wired with battery backup is a thing; those beep when the battery is low or missing

I was at a kids fire safety presentation.

The firefighter said "Hey kids, what does it mean when you hear the smoke detector?"

One kid, in before anyone else, " Dinner's ready!"

You are correct.

Fixed.

There was a battery in there - how would it beep otherwise?

Always be beeping

Sadly, without a new battery in the smoke detector, the house burned down shortly after. (The detector was so busy beeping due to its low battery that nobody realized it started beeping because of smoke.)

I think I would probably try ice cubes in a Ziploc baggy, taped to the thermostat. It should last a hell of a long time.

Of course, the problem there is regulation. You just need the heater to come on a few extra minutes an hour.

I've used that warning label at work.

"'Do not' what?" "Do not anything."

If the event that doesn’t work, buy a can of compressed air and turn it upside down.

Spray the thermostat.

The air that comes out is very cold and will fool the t-stat into turning on.

Conversely, if it’s took hot, microwave some wet paper towels and put them underneath.

I had one these bad boys in my first house I bought, built in 1940's. Replaced it, regretted it because than you have to mess with batteries (no electrical wire - just signal). Also felt like the old one was just more accurate. But you can't program them.

Careful lot of them contain mercury. Think even more modern ones do before digital.

Yes, they weren't home though. There is no one in the past anymore.

Did you travel back in time to 1982 and vacation at my parent’s house?

I haven’t seen that thermostat in decades.

That's the one I grew up with! Those things are so stupid simple they just about can't break.

So, don’t. Just put a hot cup of coffee under the thermostat, or an ice cold beverage above it.

Everybody, meet Do Not Dayton.

Believe it or not, straight to jail

Stayed at an AirBnB a while back, they had the digital thermostat locked in at 62 degrees, it was winter in a beach town.

I google the stat, found the maintenance code and moved the max up to 72 for our stay :)

Was about as effective as this label :)

Just don't.

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone for any reason ever—no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been—ever, for any reason whatsoever…

Do not, do yes... Everybody wants me to do something! I don't want!