A Note About Fire Alarms
Posted on February 21, 2010 | Categories: Life | Tags: dorm life, people suck, rants
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Dear Person Who Keeps Pulling the Fire Alarm1,
I like to get a full night’s worth of sleep on the weekends. Unfortunately, your tendency to pull the fire alarm at some ungodly hour when I am fast asleep is really starting to be a problem when it comes to me getting uninterrupted sleep. I’m pretty sure it’s not just me you’re bothering; you’re rapidly becoming a hated enemy of three residence halls as we all have to evacuate whenever you decide to pull the alarm. I hope you can count, because that’s a lot of people to piss off.
I don’t really care why you have such an affinity for pulling the fire alarm at 3a.m. Maybe you’re pledging a fraternity/sorority, maybe you get a rush whenever you hear the blare of a fire alarm, maybe you keep forgetting that foil does not belong in a microwave when you want to heat up food to appease your cravings for a midnight snack. Whatever it is, stop pulling the fire alarm. I’m serious. You’re an ass for doing so.
Not only do you force three residence halls to evacuate in the early hours of the morning, but you’re also making us stand outside for prolonged amounts of time until the all-clear is sounded and we are allowed back inside. This isn’t as much of a problem in the summer, but it is most definitely an issue in the winter, particularly as there are still mountains of snow on campus from our recent blizzards. I’d rather not catch pneumonia or bronchitis because of your stupidity, thanks.
I suppose I should be grateful for your consideration, as you did pull the fire alarm in the early a.m. on Sunday morning the last two weekends. It could be worse, such as if you pulled the fire alarm on a week night during the next two weeks, as midterms are fast approaching…
Now is probably a good time to state that if you even think of pulling the fire alarm in the middle of the night during the week of midterms, I will have your head. Consider yourself warned.
- I realize that the chance of it being the same person pulling the fire alarm on multiple occasions is very slim, but it is easier to direct this rant at one individual rather than a group. [↩]
Crissy
Wow, people are annoying. Can you officially complain to anyone? :/ *is clueless about college life*
I’m sorry :(
Manda
Not really. Most of the time it’s stupid frat pledges that pull it so unless they get caught, I’m pretty sure they get away with it.
Caity
Oh man that must be really annoying. I didn’t go away to school but I had a good friend who did and she had a similar thing happen to her. They finally caught who was doing it and they got in big trouble.
Kaylee
That’s so annoying. I hate it when people pull the fire alarm in school, but to have it pulled while you’re sleeping? I’d want to kill someone :P
Krissy
This is why I moved off campus as fast as I could. :P
Sorry to hear you’ve been woken up by the fire alarms so frequently though. That’s really sucky. Do they make you guys pay for the false alarms?
Manda
No, thank GOD. If they did, I’d petition for them to charge all of the frats since 99.9% of the time it’s a dumb frat pledge that pulls it.
Marie
Ahh, that’s horrible! If it is the same person, I just can’t understand what sort of satisfaction they get from ruining everyone’s night and depriving them of much-needed sleep.
Hopefully this whole mess will be over by the time mid-terms roll around.
Charlie
People still do that at that age?! I’m thinking drunkenness is likely but whatever the reason they need finding out and stopped. If in the event there really is a fire what are the chances anyone will believe it…
Manda
Nah, it’s usually part of the fraternity rushing process. I mean, they might be drunk when pulling it, but more often than not it’s a “test” for the pledge before they can get initiated and become a brother.
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