Arrgh.. False Alarm

Debbie and Jon were here chilling at my condo tonight until the fire alarm at the entire complex began to go off at 1:45am this morning.

We calmly and carefully placed the dreyer's ice cream back into the freezer and proceeded to follow the EXIT signs to get down to the courtyard of the complex.

Most of the residents that were gathered in the courtyard were quite worried and were wondering where the fire was. As for me, I was more concerned about the poor ice cream that we had left behind.

Five minutes went by and the firefighters had finally arrived. Some dude who was standing next to me suddenly started pointing at the far end corner of the complex, saying that he could see smoke coming out. I, too, saw smoke coming out from there, but I could not see anything being set on fire. Some lady proceeded to claim that she could smell something burning. Uhm, yeah right.

So being a disbeliever, Debbie, Jon and I decided to walk around the complex to see if there was really something burning from where we had seen the smoke come out from. When we got there, there were like two firetrucks with their engines still running. Aha! the smoke was coming out of their exhaust pipes you idiots!

For the next 10 minutes though, the alarm was still going on and it was really pretty annoying. I escorted Debbie and John to leave because it really didn't make sense for them to stick around. As for me, well, I got a little bit too cold and so I decided to go back into my unit to grab a jacket real quick.

By the time I got back into my unit, the alarm had stopped! I was like damn! All that hard work going back up for nothing! Oh well, at least I probably won the "first idiot to get back into the condo units when the alarm was turned off" award.