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[kyra_ojosverdes]

To the person who thought "Whoa, we should totally wire all the smoke detectors in the house together... and hey, when the battery gets low on one of the smoke detectors we should have all of them chirp at an interval guaranteed to be just long enough that the people will think 'no, I can totally get back to sleep before it chirps again and change the damn battery in the morning'": the first idea was good. For the second, I'll need your physical address.

To the person who decided it'd be really great to place three of the apartment's six detectors within one foot square, a fourth two feet away, and the main "Oh, one of the alarms is sounding or chirping, let's echo it to make sure you hear" alarm thingy three feet in the opposite direction: I need your phone number. The next time one of them starts chirping for a new battery in the middle of the blasted night, I'm calling you to figure out which one is chirping loudest and change its damn battery.

To the property management company: would it be too much, when you do the annual inspection that stresses me all to hell and make sure I don't have any burned-out lightbulbs, to change all the batteries in the smoke detectors? That'd be cool, folks. I'd like that.

Groggily,
Me



Hell, at least I had 9-volt batteries on hand. I couldn't identify which of the three was chirping, but apparently it was one of the two whose batteries I replaced.

Comments

[drmagoo.livejournal.com]

When my parents moved into their new place, they had that problem too. Unfortunately, the living room had one of these popular vaulted ceiling things, and the problem detector was at the top. That was a fun repair job.

[tigermorph.livejournal.com]

I want to know how they rigged it so the chirping ALWAYS starts in the middle of the night...and never during the day.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Ouch. I feel your pain. I also have 12-foot ceilings, so replacing the batteries involves hauling the Big Damned Ladder in from outside.

Which, come to think of it, I need to do before it gets too dark tonight, 'cause the one in my bedroom has begun its annual sporadic chirping ...

[samvimes.livejournal.com]

Wow... Sorry to hear that, hon. And after someone kept you up late, too! But at least you now have an ample supply of gold stars.

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

chirping fire alarms are possibly the only modern equivalent to chinese water torture.