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Bedroom problems
My smoke detector decided to start dying around 4am this morning. I lay there, hoping that it would give up the ghost altogether or that the sharp little staccato "BEEP"s would space themselves out long enough for me to fall back asleep and sleep through the night. Unfortunately neither of these scenarios occurred so I eventually dragged myself out of bed and replaced the battery. I could have been lazy and just taken the old battery out, but then I wouldn't have been able to fall back asleep for fear that a fire would spontaneously break out while I was asleep.
I went back to bed, fell asleep, and had a terrible dream where I lived in this enormous apartment which was decorated like Rock Hudson's apartment in Pillow Talk and which had smoke detectors on every wall of every room, one of which (and I couldn't tell which one) was beeping.
srah - Monday, 9 April 2007 - 12:19 PM
Tags: dream, pillow talk, smoke detector
Comments (4)
katie - April 9, 2007 - 1:21 PM - ℓ
When I moved into my apartment, they had installed a new oven and the coating on the inside caused it to smoke every time I used it, setting off the smoke detector in my little efficiency. So, like the responsible law-abiding citizen that I am, every time I had to cook, I would disconnect the smoke detector. But it has a failsafe that made it beep incessantly when you do that, so I would take the battery out too. I'd put it all back when I was done cooking. Kinda defeats the purpose though, I think... Fortunately, the smokey stuff finally burned away and it doesn't do that anymore.
Nick Baker - April 9, 2007 - 7:11 PM - ℓ
Was this pre- or post-redecoration by Doris Day? Because before she had her way with it, he had a swinging bachelor pad. Actually, it reminds me of my own apartment a bit...
That sucks. There's a smoke detector in the hall right outside of my bedroom and when the battery starts to go the beeping makes me want to kill myself.
Also I just wanted to give you props for mentioning the movie Pillow Talk, which I have seen approximately 9,000 times. Give or take.