Two-Alarm Night

A couple of nights ago, my wife and I settled in for a long winter's nap. Or something. It was later than normal.

It took a while to drift off to sleep that night. I'm not sure why. I just know I was really only starting to sleep deeply when

BEEP!!!

Gah! My wife sat upright in bed like a shot. It took a little longer to wake me up, by which time we'd heard the beep a few more times. One of our smoke detectors was whining about a low battery.

1:30 in the morning, and we're standing up on chairs replacing a battery in a smoke detector. I was overjoyed. I used lots of adjectives to describe the smoke detector. I'll let you use your imagination.

Sleep did not return easily, but it did return. I was having a very relaxing dream about

BEEP!!!

Gah! What?!? Again?

My wife prowled around the apartment and discovered that we did have another smoke detector with a low battery. It was 4 AM.

There are only 4 smoke detectors in the entire apartment! Two of them went BEEP!!! in the same night, within a few hours of each other.

There were more adjectives.

From now on I'm sleeping with a hammer next to the bed. Just in case one of the other two detectors decides to cry "wolf" in the night.

Technology, I will rule thee.