Where were you today when the national emergency alert system pinged on your phone?

[Westfacing]

I was on the Tube heading towards King's Cross.

Fellow passengers were impressed that it worked deep underground!

John Lewis

We were driving home from tesco. Every driver around us reached for their phones.

Driving. I freaked the fuck out wondering what was wrong with the car and didn’t realise until looking at my phone after.

On a train from Brum to Leeds via Sheffield. I turned off the alarm notification

I don't drive.

If I witness a crime, I'll phone the police when I get home.

On the M1

Didn't get it, must not be important enough to contact!

In the gym on the treadmill. Mine went off about 30 seconds before DH’s phone. Didn’t hear anybody else’s alert as had my AirPods in.

In the car heading to the shops. It went at 3.12 and not 3 when I was in a car park. I realised it was 3 and was thinking that it didn't work on my phone and I heard it on the phones of people who were walking past the car.

When it did go off I could see a message on my phone though the message was also relayed audibly.

I turned mine off but was out and about (at a museum) so heard other peoples’ - not all of them went off at 3 on the dot, some a few minutes later.

In the kitchen cooking, I thought it was the timer for the oven going off.

At home blow drying my hair

In a holiday rental flat in Pimlico. I missed my own reminder but fortunately had just read a WhatsApp message mentioning it so wasn’t surprised. DDs phone vibrated itself into the wash basin.

Having tea and cake with my son in a random golf club cafe (we do NOT golf, but there are antiques shops there which we had just mooched through)

Oh dear. You are going to be eaten by zombies, while the rest of us run.

In the kitchen, phone on desk in study. Thought it was a funny noise on DH's TV programme. Only when I read the alert later did I remember.

Not going to be great in the zombie apocalypse, I don't think.

What are we supposed to do if one does go off? If a bomb is about to land on us for instance, I think I'd rather not know. I don't have a bomb shelter. They must think there are quite a few things afoot.

Oh I suppose you could get a flat tyre, or trip or fall a d need help?

But I suppose you’ve pre planned you won’t, so that’s ok?

I think you’ll find it’s fit the unexpected, not the expected?

It will tell you, depending on the issue.

What do you think we all did before mobile phones were invented?😆

But I'm not sure that the majority of people will be able to do what they suggest. Hopefully, it's just get home, get inside.

We watched Threads and decided not to bother surviving.

Seriously, I can see local situations where this would be useful. Maybe they need to come up with something more commanding than a strange beep.

It will depend on the situation. We had it when we were evacuated in Rhodes because of the wildfires. It told us to go to a certain town. Once we got there we found the evacuation centre. The info can only be limited i suppose to make sure people get to safety. Then its up to you.

Asleep with earphones in. That's a true rude awakening. Jumped out my skin.

No idea, I disabled it. All part of their scaremongering plan.