Well THAT Was Exciting.

Fire Alarm just jostled us out of bed a few minutes to midnight. Scared the pants off of our kid, as you might imagine. We stood outside for almost half an hour before the Fire Department gave the all clear.

A bunch of people actually stopped to watch the fun.

“Oh, do you live here too?”
“No, I was just walking. isn’t it exciting?”
“Not for me. I live here.”

Insensitive much?

Only slightly more annoying were one set of neighbors who found the whole thing amusing and were taking pictures and laughing.

I was supposed to be up at 4 for work, but I called in. I probably won’t even get back to bed until 4 with this adrenalin rush. Heck, right now our daughter is chattering on about how she just learned fire safety again this week and isn’t that special and say I’m not sleepy at all now mommy…

As our Rabbi said last year when our pipes burst on Yom Kippur… it should be a Kaporah (act of penance)

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5 responses to “Well THAT Was Exciting.”

  1. depizan Avatar
    depizan

    Yeah, that kind of thing isn’t fun. My apartment building’s alarm system had to be replaced a couple years ago because it started failing – with false alarms in the middle of winter. Hopefully, if that kind of thing is the cause of your false alarm, they get it taken care of before winter.

    Though, on the bright side, at least it _was_ a false alarm. (Or close enough.)

  2. Jon Snow Avatar
    Jon Snow

    I guess that the people who watched and recording fall of WTC also found it exciting and amusing :(. In the century before people would try to help you in any way they could. But now it is like : No biggy, professionals will take care of that. Where is this world going?

  3. Thena Avatar
    Thena

    The fire alarms went off here a couple months ago and one older tenant was frightened out of her mind. She was living there when the building next to us burned down. The Assistant Superintendent was yelling at her inability to move down the stairs and out the door fast enough. The woman was frightened of another fire and hysterical and yelling at her was not going to help her. I eventually calmed her down and gave her a moment to cry. If the dude only encouraged her, instead of yelling at her she would have moved a lot faster.

  4. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    And the worst thing is, your lasagna was *ruined*!

  5. typolad Avatar
    typolad

    Michael, what happens in Rita’s stays in Rita’s!

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