Modern conveniences are so inconvenient

[philena]

The dryer debacle, for example. Or this ridiculous new smoke detector, which appeared in our apartment one day last month, along with a fire extinguisher. Unlike everything else in this apartment, the detector is state-of-the-art, which means it does not detect (only?) smoke, but also heat. Which would be fine and dandy, except that it is awkwardly placed in our kitchen, and every time we open the oven it starts beeping--occasionally tentatively, occasionally in fits and spurts, but it's been going for a good ten minutes now (beep beep beep, and we have the doors and windows open, not that there's any heat or smoke now for it to react to--not since we closed the oven door ten minutes ago), and I'm getting damn sick of it. I mean, the quiche will be delicious, but I'm a holistic type, and I like to think that the taste will be vastly improved by having the use of my eardrums.

Right. We've taken the battery out. That sounds better.

Edit 3/23/07 11:45 AM: Okay, now I just set it off by boiling water to make tea.

Comments

[summercomfort]

first thing Chinese people do when then move into a new place: disable the smoke alarm. That or get a very big fan to wave at the smoke alarm every 5 minutes.

[philena.livejournal.com]

Right. Daniel and I will probably make our pre-dinner cooking ritual to take out the battery.

[hythlae.livejournal.com]

I have the same problem with my smoke detector ... at least we won't perish in a fire? my cat may have a heart attack, though. he hides for over an hour each time it goes off ... and I don't even burn things much anymore!

[juniper949.livejournal.com]

My smoke detector does this too and it does not have its own battery. Its hooked into our condo's electrical system. To make matters worse, it's also hooked into the fire department's system. So everytime it goes off we get a vist from the fire department. It's fun...