Bad Manners and Brimstone

I had a pair of tongs that lived on the kitchen counter to hit the silent button on the smoke detector as the smoke detector was too close to the kitchen and the toaster would set it off.  (The bread was barely toasted, but the smoke detector was going off like crazy!)  One day, I noticed the tongs were gone and I couldn't find them anywhere.  Only myself and the pup live in the house but parents are occasionally around so I chalked it up to my dad accidentally taking them home when they brought some stuff over for a bbq. 

It's been about 6 months but it motivated me to move the smoke detector down the hall and now the toaster no longer sets it off.  (Woo Hoo!)  Yesterday morning, when I opened the fridge door, there are the tongs, sitting on top of the fridge, hanging over the front of the fridge! I swear the gremlin in my house was getting tired of the smoke detector scaring the pup and forced me to do something about it!