Hi again. I’m wondering if you have had a pod scream, or if you are hoping to forestall it? If you’ve never heard one is not as bad as the term “screaming pod” makes it sound: it’s loud enough to get your attention and annoying along the lines of the alert you hear when you’ve left your fridge open, but nothing like the volume of a fire alarm. I woke up one night to get a glass of water and heard “this sound” but couldn’t figure out what it was. I followed it downstairs and to the trash can where I had tossed a pod earlier in the day - and voilà!
I’m not sure if this will help or hurt, but here’s a true story of mine about a screaming pod:
So - I left work early yesterday because my controller wouldn’t communicate with my pod. Things were back to normal when I got home 10 minutes later and I went to the dentist as planned. Got to work this morning and my co-worker good me I had missed some excitement.
Really, what?
We thought we had a bomb.
OH [insert your preferred expletive here]. I knew right away what he was referring to: the pod I had removed and tossed in the trash had not deactivated and was beeping when the early birds got to work. Thankfully James kept his cool and looked in the bathroom trash. I’ve worn my pod on my arm and told people what it is so thankfully he recognized it - he threw it in the dumpster down the street. Not knowing how loud it might eventually get I walked around the dumpster waving my controller to connect and shut it off. I thought it stopped before I went back to my office but I did go back to check later just in case.
I may laugh about this someday but right now I am not amused. Note to self: take your used pods home to discard.
I did see the humor in it a couple of days later - and ever since then I take all my used pods home to discard, including the ones that ended normally - just in case.
As I recall mine have screamed not while I was wearing them, but some hours after removal because they did not disconnect fully from the controller (I was still able to start a new pod, so no worries). And my controller did let me know the discarded pod did not disconnect completely. When you get that message you can toss the pod in the freezer - in all but one case that completely prevented it from screaming in the first place.
To lighten things up a bit (I hope you don’t mind), an original and incredibly bad poem by yours truly, to the rhyme of “Purple Cow” by Gelett Burgess (many or most of you may need to Google it😊):
If you should get a screaming pod
Just silence it, don’t fear it.
The sound it makes is not so loud
That you cannot get near it.
Insert a pushpin in the hole
That serves as the pod’s speaker,
Or if you can’t find one of those,
Then toss it in the freezer.
Throw out your old pods at home
So only you will know
If stopping the last one you used
Just did not so well go🤪.
Take care of it quickly -
Try the options above -
And those around you will know
That you have done enough.
Yes it may be annoying,
And it might make you mad.
But compared to other alarms
It’s really not so bad.
Hopefully
By Dorie (the demented poet)
). Granted not as loud as the Pod but still would like the ability to temporarily or permanently disable the speaker so I can bring my PDM to meetings without it going off.
