Dear Diary,
The smoke detector in our apartment is stupid. It cannot distinguish between fire smoke and shower steam. Either that, or it suffers from some complex because it failed its smoke detecting test, and now tries to compensates for it by going off at everything. Be it smoke, steam, heat, a sneeze...
Of course, it being two feet away from the bathroom entrance doesn't help matters. You come out of the bathroom after a hot shower and leave the door open, and it sets off the alarm. All of a sudden, there is a state of emergency declared in our apartment. Then you see us roommates, each with any piece of cloth we can get our hands on - be it a towel, a pair of trousers, or a pillow case - coming out of all corners of the apartment and gathering under the alarm, jumping and waving the garment like crazy in front of it to shut it off.
Now you can only imagine what such a psychologically dented, super-sensitive smoke detector, that goes off at any excuse it can find, does when there is actual smoke. For example, when one of us burns something when cooking. Yup, it goes stark raving mad. Takes about half our laundry to wave frantically in front of it to kill the shrilling noise.
But that's not all. As if the shrill of the alarm isn't enough, one of my roommates actually likes to continuously yell at it to "SHUT UP!" while clearing the air around it. Sometimes she is even louder than the alarm itself. So we get the annoying noise from the smoke detector coupled with the equally annoying noise from her. And the combination, dear diary, is deadly. I always end up having a splitting headache for the rest of that day. :(
The smoke detector in our apartment is stupid. It cannot distinguish between fire smoke and shower steam. Either that, or it suffers from some complex because it failed its smoke detecting test, and now tries to compensates for it by going off at everything. Be it smoke, steam, heat, a sneeze...
Of course, it being two feet away from the bathroom entrance doesn't help matters. You come out of the bathroom after a hot shower and leave the door open, and it sets off the alarm. All of a sudden, there is a state of emergency declared in our apartment. Then you see us roommates, each with any piece of cloth we can get our hands on - be it a towel, a pair of trousers, or a pillow case - coming out of all corners of the apartment and gathering under the alarm, jumping and waving the garment like crazy in front of it to shut it off.
Now you can only imagine what such a psychologically dented, super-sensitive smoke detector, that goes off at any excuse it can find, does when there is actual smoke. For example, when one of us burns something when cooking. Yup, it goes stark raving mad. Takes about half our laundry to wave frantically in front of it to kill the shrilling noise.
But that's not all. As if the shrill of the alarm isn't enough, one of my roommates actually likes to continuously yell at it to "SHUT UP!" while clearing the air around it. Sometimes she is even louder than the alarm itself. So we get the annoying noise from the smoke detector coupled with the equally annoying noise from her. And the combination, dear diary, is deadly. I always end up having a splitting headache for the rest of that day. :(
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