Fire Alarm!

[TriptychR]

This past weekend was fun. Someone decided that it would be great to pull the fire alarm at 4 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. I think we need a Drunk Alarm sometimes.

Of course, this still doesn't beat the time a couple years ago when someone thought it would be a good idea to set an industrial-sized roll of toilet paper on fire. I have great respect for the campus safety officer who ran out with that over his head and stomped it out.

Does anyone have any stories or thoughts about this inevitable part of the college dorm experience?

 

[Glorianna]

I hated the fire alarms. They seemed to go off at the worst possible times.

 

[Singing Bush]

I hated the fire alarms. They seemed to go off at the worst possible times.

Yeah, usually the "can it possibly get any colder outside?" time.

 

[Thithy]

Well I wasn't in college then, but one of my friends told me that last year when it was negative 20 degrees outside, some lovely person decided to pull the fire alarm at something like 3am. However, this wasn't the worst of it. The bad part is, they did it again half an hour later. Needless to say everyone was extremely exhausted the next morning, and not very happy.

 

[TriptychR]

Well I wasn't in college then, but one of my friends told me that last year when it was negative 20 degrees outside, some lovely person decided to pull the fire alarm at something like 3am.

-20? And I thought I had it bad at Niagara. Where does your friend go?

 

[Thithy]

Spokane Washington! I'm there now, just waiting for it to get that cold again. (crossing fingers that it doesn't) there was a really bad storm that hit the west coast last year, I don't think it usually gets that cold.

 

[lilouisianagal]

Well in addition to the lovely fire alarms we are also blessed with "door alarms". So if someone goes out the door in the basement of the stair (right next to my room) a *slightly* muted version of the fire alarm goes off. grrrr. so we trot across the building to the front desk to tell them to come turn it off. oh the joy!

 

[Spicy McHaggis]

Sounds like these people are trying to wear everybody out to swing the grading curve back into thier favor!

 

[MetalBlade]

Nope, but it does give me a heads up. Moving to the dorm next fall semester.

 

[theseed]

When I lived in the dorm, the fire alarm went off alot. One night it went off 4 times.

 

[MarLoc]

Oh yes... fire alarms. I thought fire alarms in HS during lunch period was bad until I went to college. 2am, 3am, 4am fire alarms with an 8am class that day. Oh it was just great. It has taught me a few things though: 1. Shower in the AM and 2. write a letter to the president of the school telling him/her to make it mandatory for freshman to know how to cook before they use any electrical appliances in the kitchen. One of the fire alarms was caused by burned popcorn.