I haven’t had a Monday morning rant for a while so I thought that today would be a good a day as any to have one. First off, I should let everyone know I do have my cranky pants on this morning. You have been dutifully warned.
The reason I have my cranky pants on is because I was woken up at 02:00 this morning.
While I accept the noises of the city in my stride after all, it is a trade off for living where I do, today was a little different.
Usually the noises of the city don’t bother me, and if they do happen to wake me up, I can just roll over and shuffle off back to the land of nod without too much of a hassle.
Not this morning.
Today, it was a 02:00 fire alarm coming from the building next door. You know that annoying bell that once it gets inside your head, it just keeps going and going and going. Then came the evacuation tone. As soon as I heard that I didn’t even try going back to sleep because I knew that it wouldn’t be too long before the lights and sirens from the BRT’s that belong to the QFRS came screaming down the street.
Sure enough, they weren’t too far away, and I could hear the sirens in the distance getting closer. The funny thing is that once the two BRT’s got into the street, they turned the sirens off, so all I was left with was the flashing lights. Those of you that know me, know I am always distracted and mesmerised by flashing lights and shiny things, and even though it was a little after 2AM, today was no different…
Anyway, thankfully it was a false alarm, and they trundled off on their way, once they had the issue sorted.
I breathed a sigh of relief and thought I would be able to get back to sleep again. So I fluffed up my pillow, grabbed by Humprey B Bear teddy and closed my eyes…
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