To the person who set off the fire alarm...

b_girl

To the kind person who set off the fire alarm at 3:45am:

Thank you very much. I thoroughly enjoy being woken up, still half-drunk, to an overly-loud alarm emanating from the speaker by my front door at 3:45am. I especially like waiting outside in my pyjamas for the firefighters to show up. Oh the joys of waiting in the cold with a hundred or so other people on the streets of downtown Toronto.

Please though, the next time you feel the urge to drag us all out of bed - at least make it worth our time. Light your kitchen on fire or something... let us see some smoke & flames so we at least feel like there was a reason behind walking down flight upon flight of stairs.
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To the firefighters who arrived at my building last night:

Although I appreciate what you do for a living, it would be nice if you would turn off our fire alarm - or tell the building manager all is safe - before leaving. I realize that 3 of the 4 trucks that arrived last night sped off quite quickly once you entered the building, but that doesn't mean you have to rush out as well.

Thanks to this, our alarm continued to sound for another 45 minutes after you left.

Have a wonderful day.

kyle · Guest

so you would have rather it been a real fire?

E.J. · Ladies Man Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 7597 City: Mogadishu

Christ....I read this now...... I never thought of the ability to go into any Sorority House on campus in my college days, pull the fire alarm and have numerous co-eds stumbling out in all sorts of undress....

Could have made a event of it.... Set up lawn chairs, bring coolers....... Laughing

Yea Kyle, that was her point...... Rolling Eyes

b_girl · Posted: Sep 01, 2006 6:59 am Post subject:

kyle, uuuhhh... yeah.....

Sorority houses all over the states are gonna see an increase in fire alarms now... haha..

Dragonlady8 · Black Widow Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 9198

I remember that at the college coed dorms....happens just about every morning for the first 5wks of school Rolling Eyes

Aubs · Motorboat Queen Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9167

dlady - hah that happened to us too.. sucks so bad

b_girl · Posted: Sep 01, 2006 8:56 am Post subject:

yeah fire alarms would always get pulled in our dorms as well - had one pulled once during a 2nd year calculus final as well - haha!

scott a · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 9810

you think ONE is bad? try three in one night the day before finals start.

if you live in the dorms expect it to happen...

b_girl · Posted: Sep 01, 2006 9:37 am Post subject:

I don't live in dorms anymore - that was years ago... But yeah, I do remember it being quite bad in the dorms!

Last night was in my apartment building

Darin · Guest

If you can tell there isn't a fire, why bother going outside at all. Pull a pillow over your head.

204Waker · Posted: Sep 01, 2006 1:16 pm Post subject:

Tyler T · Posted: Sep 01, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject:

scott a · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 9810

Tyler T, same here. when a third alarm was pulled in the same nite (as i mentioned earlier), nobody left. so basically the firemen went room by room opening up doors and issuing citations for not leaving. thankfully by the 6th floor, they were totally over writing tickets, and they just told us to get down stairs asap.

204Waker · Posted: Sep 02, 2006 1:38 pm Post subject:

b_girl · Posted: Sep 04, 2006 6:25 pm Post subject:

I don't think it's the law here - if it is, I haven't heard of it... But either way, in my building there's would be no way of telling if it's a real fire or not - I don't usually leave until I see other people leaving though, I try to stick it out as long as I can...

When I used to live in dorms, the alarms got pulled all the time, so my friends and I stopped going out for all of them - we only got in trouble a few times, but that's alright!