An attempt to beautify an image of my lime green cat pants.
Recently, I moved into an apartment on campus at my university, and people just keep setting off the fire alarm. And it’s almost always a false alarm. I have been rudely awakened by the sound of sirens blaring and a deep male voice saying ‘EMERGENCY’ like a broken record about five times now in the last two days, and have been forced to evacuate my building at crazy hours like 2:30am. I’ve learned a few things about forced evacuations though, and here are my conclusions:
1. Invest in some suitable/decent looking pyjamas. The whole ‘wear whatever is comfortable because no one else will see it anyway’ thing is a myth. This obviously doesn’t apply when 400 other people in your building will see you. And judge you. I have realized my pale yellow teddybear nightie should probably never make another reappearance. Ever. My 3/4 lime green pants with cats, love hearts and ‘purrr’ on them probably aren’t going to cut it either.
2. You will start hearing the sirens in your head all the time. Especially when you shower. You will develop paranoia and try to shower as quickly as possible to avoid having to evacuate half-dressed with shampoo in your hair. It didn’t help my paranoia that I was hearing imaginary sirens during my shower last night, and then as soon as I got out of the shower I heard actual real sirens. And had to evacuate.
3. Do not decide to curl your hair spontaneously at 2.30am ‘just to see what it would look like’. I had this awkward situation yesterday where I did exactly that, and then was forced to face my peers with newly curled hair, and pyjamas. At 2:30am. Great combo.
4. Some people look ridiculously perfect at 2:30am. They are dressed well, and have great hair even though they look half asleep. Maybe they do really wake up looking like that. Note to self (again): invest in some suitable pyjamas.
5. People’s repertoire of swear words increase and become much more creative at 2:30am.
6. We’re paying the firemen’s salary. Apparently its $1500 per call out. But even they are probably sick of all these false alarms, when they could be putting out real fires elsewhere.
I really hope I get uninterrupted sleep tonight. The wonderful 2:30am alarm seems to love to make reappearances. Oh the joys of living in an apartment with 400 other people!
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