What were you doing when the alarm went off?

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I was at my daughters birthday party. It went over the entertainers blue tooth speakers as well as everyone's phone.

Sat waiting for an alarm that never came...

Sitting wondering why the alarm wasn't going off. DS was getting very impatient that it didn't go off at 15.00

Our went off at 15.01!!!

At work. My phone was on silent but I saw the notification when I finished.

Same 🙄

Childrens party

I was in Tesco's

I was doing some work on my laptop. Mine went off at 2.59

Making mine and DH's lunch

I feel cheated. Mine never went off...

Whatsapping DS.

Walking in a footpath that runs through a small farm yard - DH & my phones went off simultaneously and our first thought was that they had some sort of intruder alarm!

Took us a second to remember!

It went off at 14.59. The alert followed a minute later.

I'd turned mine off.

Walking through the rain at a national trust property. How very mumsnet.

My fone was in a locker and I was swimming with the kids. Only checked it about an hour ago and I saw the notification. Didn't hear anything while we were in swimming. It's like it didn't happen for me as never heard it.

My phone was also on silent. It still made me jump out of my skin when it went off.

I was sat on the sofa watching a Sunday movie.

Sat waiting for a concert to start. It was supposed to start at 3pm but they delayed the start 5 minutes because of the alarm and then asked people to turn off their phones. There were still ones going off sporadically ten minutes later as people seemed unable to follow instructions

Reading but it never went off

Visiting my mum in hospital. About half the wards phone went off, a couple went off a few minutes later, several never went off at all ( including my daughter's).

Watching Love is Blind whilst making a mini textile art. Mine went off at 2:59 on work phone and personal phone - it wasn't very loud on either phone... A little bit (disappointingly) underwhelming 😂

Walking the dogs without my phone

Baking. My phone was turned off like it usually is.

Forgot it was happening. I was in Tesco. I couldn't work out what the hell the noise was. Then it clicked.

Driving.
I want to know what is the real reason for this alarm. I don’t accept that it’s for flood or wildfire, I don’t accept that.

Is there impending attacks that the government know about, and if we are attacked, what’s the fucking point in an alarm going off on a phone? What can we do? Where can we go? How the fuck do we protect ourselves?
It’s like the bomb warning in the war.

Sat in the bath. Phone was in another room so didn't hear it.

In a restaurant eating a carvery...was abit of a non event tbh as everyone's went off afew mins apart it seemed/they quickly turned it off.I was expecting afew minutes of a chorus of loud noise 😂