Shower Jeopardy

I think there needs to be a new Jeopardy category just for parents:

Heard It from the Shower

Today's Daily Double:  In great haste, a parent will exit the shower at the sound of this thing.

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I asked my friends on FB a similar question and got some truly hilarious answers.

There is always something!  Seldom do I make it through an entire shower without at least one mystery noise to decode.

In fact, my peaceful morning routine (after making sure that everyone is squared away with what he/she needs to be doing - school assignments, chores, occupying the littles etc.) typically goes something like this:

(turn on shower)

"Mommy!!  I poooooped!"

(turn off shower)

"Okay, are you good?  I'm getting in the shower now."

(turn on shower)

(knock at the door followed by a muffled complaint/tattle/philosophical question about hippos - I really can't tell.......because I'm in the shower.)

"I can't hear you, so unless it's an emergency, you're going to have to wait."

(muffled talking continues)

"Honey, I can't hear you!  Unless it's an emergency, you're going to have to wait!"

(series of thumps and the sound of running)

This one's like a choose your own adventure...

Thumps and running followed by tears -->  shut off water and investigate.

Thumps and running not followed by tears --> ignore.

(more thumps and running)

(screaming -  but not the hurt kind - the super angry 2yo kind)

"What's going on?"

(more screaming)

"GUYS!  What is going on?"

(no answer)

(shut off water - open one eye with shampoo dripping down my face - yell)

"CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME?!?!"

(a short individual appears outside the shower door with an explanation about who took what from whom)

(no one is injured - water on)

About this time the hot water runs out because someone in the other shower has been using it for a storm scene for Lego guys, while in the shower not actually washing.

(cut my losses, finish up as fast as possible, and pursue any further-needed investigations)

Soooo, today...

This was a new one, actually.

Approximately 2 minutes and 43 seconds into what was going to be a micro-shower anyway, I hear -

CRASH!!!

 clink - clink - clink - clink - clink 

Followed by a collective, "Ohhhhhhh!"

Then silence.

(water off)

"Nobody move!  Don't touch anything!  I want to see how it broke!"

It was definitely the sound of breaking glass!  But I was concerned a window may have been broken by someone on the outside.  So the fact that one of the kids broke it from the inside, strangely, made me feel a lot better.

This is one example of how my motherly propensity toward worst-case-scenario thinking pays off at times.  I can pretty much always think of how something could have been worse, so that makes whatever the something actually is not seem so bad.

The responsible party fessed up right away with penitence and trepidation - 

and a newly-acquired $90 tab, if anyone in the neighborhood is hiring. 

So the final answer in today's Heard It from the Shower category is:

What is the sound of shattering glass?

Cheers y'all!  It's definitely Monday.