beep you, &%#*$!!!
How very unfortunate that the night I am snowed in my apartment, my roommate is more annoying than ever. By roughly 5 pm, I couldn't take it anymore, so I spent the majority of the night in the living room. This wasn't enough to shield me from her however. Of course her phone conversation was unnecessarily extensive, loud, annoying, and produced much disgust. The terror didn't end here however.
At some point she decided to make some french fries. No problem here. Too bad she forgot about them. Eventually she came out in a huff, of course still on the phone, banging around as she pulled the semi-burned fries from the oven. I had been, and remained to be, lying on the couch watching tv, attempting to act as if she were not there. To my delight, the smoke detector began to blare. Now the chaos really began. She banged around, fumbling with the kitchen chair, cursing and grunting loudly with the phone still in her ear. She tore the alarm from the wall and, when it didn't stop screaming, ripped out the battery. The lesson I learned last night (although I'm not sure my roommate learned anything) is that when you leave a smoke detector hanging from the wall with no battery it will beep, and beep, and beep until you do something about it. She made some statement on the phone about how she'd have to come back and fix that later... once the oven cooled.
The beeping continued. Every 40 seconds another beep. (yup, I timed it) At least an hour went by. The math major in me is gonna say that that would mean at least 90 beeps. A bit distracting when you're trying to relax and enjoy some television, don't ya think? I very well could have gotten up and put the battery back in myself, but I'm nobody's mother. After an excruciating period of disgust, my other roommate (with whom I get along splendidly) came out and attempted to fix the detector. However, after the battery was back in place and the detector was secured in the wall, the beeping continued. I then got up to see if she needed assistance. It was a nightmare. Even after turning off the fuse dealie it continued to beep. I was contemplating finding a hammer when eventually she managed to do something and the beeping finally ceased. All the while my roomie was behind the door of our bedroom. Thank the Lord she left for the weekend.
There is a fabulous Friends reference here. Remember the one where Phoebe has major problems shutting up her smoke detector?
At some point she decided to make some french fries. No problem here. Too bad she forgot about them. Eventually she came out in a huff, of course still on the phone, banging around as she pulled the semi-burned fries from the oven. I had been, and remained to be, lying on the couch watching tv, attempting to act as if she were not there. To my delight, the smoke detector began to blare. Now the chaos really began. She banged around, fumbling with the kitchen chair, cursing and grunting loudly with the phone still in her ear. She tore the alarm from the wall and, when it didn't stop screaming, ripped out the battery. The lesson I learned last night (although I'm not sure my roommate learned anything) is that when you leave a smoke detector hanging from the wall with no battery it will beep, and beep, and beep until you do something about it. She made some statement on the phone about how she'd have to come back and fix that later... once the oven cooled.
The beeping continued. Every 40 seconds another beep. (yup, I timed it) At least an hour went by. The math major in me is gonna say that that would mean at least 90 beeps. A bit distracting when you're trying to relax and enjoy some television, don't ya think? I very well could have gotten up and put the battery back in myself, but I'm nobody's mother. After an excruciating period of disgust, my other roommate (with whom I get along splendidly) came out and attempted to fix the detector. However, after the battery was back in place and the detector was secured in the wall, the beeping continued. I then got up to see if she needed assistance. It was a nightmare. Even after turning off the fuse dealie it continued to beep. I was contemplating finding a hammer when eventually she managed to do something and the beeping finally ceased. All the while my roomie was behind the door of our bedroom. Thank the Lord she left for the weekend.
There is a fabulous Friends reference here. Remember the one where Phoebe has major problems shutting up her smoke detector?
posted by that girl at
12:14 AM
2 Comments:
yupp i remember! and she tries to dismantle it to make it stop
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Smoothieshake, at 2/21/2006 10:33 PM
No, none of my roommates know about this baby. Living with girls is hard, but it's more a matter of the one being annoying and inconsiderate than it is about her being female.
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that girl, at 2/23/2006 2:12 PM
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