Here’s a philosophical poser for you:
Why is it that the batteries in your smoke detectors always
start going bad during the hours when (if you’re lucky) you’re in your deepest,
most restorative sleep?
Over the past year or so, every time one of my five
alarms started that shrill insistent beeping (and let me just say that
cathedral ceilings and fake hardwood floors provide the perfect environment for
that sound to echo throughout the house and drill into your brain) somewhere
between 0100 and 0400.
Never once during daylight hours. How do they do that?
Yesterday it was at 0230. By this time I had only three
working smoke alarms (because I hadn’t got around to buying 9V batteries), but
I still had to go around the entire place listening for which one of the three
was actually beeping. By the time I found it and got it off the ceiling, I was
thoroughly awake, and it took me a good hour to get back to sleep again.
This did force me to finally go out and get a supply of
9V batteries, and I got all three tested and mounted again, so I should be
street legal in case the fire marshals show up for a surprise inspection.
Until some night between midnight and 0400 when one of
the five goes off again.
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