DEAR ABBY: In a recent column, a reader shared a humorous experience about her smoke alarm going off. She regarded it as a "sign" from her deceased father that he was OK.
My beloved husband, Frank, was blind from diabetes when he died. He had owned a "talking watch." Since it had been such an important part of his daily life, it was on his wrist for the funeral -- with the voice and alarm turned off.
The minister who officiated at Frank's service began "preaching" instead of fondly remembering my late husband's life, and right smack in the middle of the sermon, somehow my husband's watch alarm went off! Later someone said, "Yep, that was Frank. He was letting the preacher know it was time to quit!" -- SUSAN, COLEMAN, MICH.
DEAR SUSAN: Let's just say it took a miracle to turn a wristwatch into a "stop" watch.