MACON, GA — A smoke alarm living in the house of a local family waited patiently until all the home's occupants went to sleep to start beeping loudly sometime around 3 A.M. to announce that its battery was low.
"It's my duty as a smoke alarm to be as loud and as inconvenient as possible," the smoke alarm told reporters. "I must wait until the family I live with goes to bed, and preferably not start beeping until they all reach REM sleep cycles sometime in the middle of the night. Last night, I chose 3 A.M. to start my chirping. Boy, were they surprised!"
The Brewer family expressed frustration regarding the middle-of-the-night beeping, with husband Matt grumbling something about AA batteries as he stumbled around in the dark.
"Ugh, where are those things?" he was heard saying as he dug around in the kitchen junk drawer. "Why does that smoke alarm always have to go off in the very middle of the night? It has all day to start chirping."
The smoke alarm later admitted to friends that it waits until the worst time in order to feel a little sense of power. "No one cares about me at 2 P.M. in the middle of the day. When I go off at 3 A.M., everyone has no choice but to listen to me."
At publishing time, the smoke alarm had admitted that it was a little sad that it would be at least another year before it could do it again.
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