It's Petty, But I Was Right

"Does that beeping bother you?  Because it's bothering me."
If it's bothering you, do something about it.
"I don't know what it is."
It's the smoke detector.
"It's not plugged in.  It can't be the smoke detector."
It is the smoke detector, we only took out one battery.
"It doesn't have batteries in it.  How can it be the smoke detector?"
I don't know, go check.  That's the noise it makes.
"It's something in the basement."
It's the smoke detector.
"We have a smoke detector in the basement?"
No.  The one up here.
"Where is it?"
Really?  It's the one on the table.
"It's not that smoke detector.  It doesn't have batteries.  It's coming from the basement.  I think I know where I can hear it coming from."
So, what is it?
"I don't know what's down there."
We don't have a smoke detector in the basement.  It's the smoke detector on the table.  If you can't find it, that's not my fault.
"It is not the smoke detector."
Fine.  You figure it out, then.

It starts beeping again three hours later.  I go to stand next to the smoke detector, which still has one of its two batteries in.  It's beeping.

You wanna tell me again how it isn't this smoke detector?