I actually wrote this a few weeks ago, about 3 hours into the morning... The profanity has been edited out from the original post...
I'd like to discuss with you all a very important issue affecting our society RIGHT NOW.
Car Alarms.
The neighbor's car just shut off after approximately 25 minutes of obnoxiously loud, uninterrupted, monotonous horn-blaring.
Now I've been needlessly woken from a peaceful slumber--one which I won't fall back into because there is a definite difference between waking up and drifting back to sleep after a few minutes and waking up and being forced to stay awake for nearly half an hour. I am wide awake now and will probably remain so until about 6am, at which time I will, if I'm lucky, fall into a restless sleep lasting about 2 hours, remaining incredibly tired the rest of the day.
Almost as important as that, if someone had actually been trying to steal your precious vehicle, I guarantee you that in that 25 minutes, during which you did nothing, they would have been long gone. Long gone with your "well-protected, security-enabled" car.
What does this tell us?
If your car alarm is nothing more than a series of loud beeps, you are inconsiderate and, this means nothing to you, but I don't like you.
like if anything sinister actually was happening to your car on a normal, daily outing:
Unless your car alarm is a soundless, alert-the-police-and-then-they-can-track-your-vehicle alarm, the only thing it is good for is pissing people off in parking garages when they have to hear its timeless echo throughout all 12 stories because a gust of wind brushed against the windshield wiper. Or because you were too stupid to remember that you secured your car and tried to open it and can't seem to comprehend which button on your "Go Yankees!" key chain to push to turn it off. I'll bet you left your kid in the car too while you carried your precious dog through the grocery store. Jerk.
In the future, please consider that silent alarms are both considerate, and they might actually be good for something. My circadian rhythm and the world will thank you for it.
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that is so true. i know its not to the same degree, but clock alarms are the same.
When I hear watches going off in a store, I make it my personal mission to find the culprit(s) and shut it(them) off. Trufax.
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LOL, I rush to the nearest watch counter and reset them to go off again. :)
That's the 4th grader in me.
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I like you. I don't like car alarms.
Ever been woken up by 5AM construction?? Honestly. It's fucking sweet. And I want to punch them all in the face. No one is awake at 5AM except for you, giant truck, so no one gives a rat's ass that you are backing up, okay? Um, that is how I feel.
(Do we lose brownie points on this when we swear??)
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No, you just risk sounding like an ignorant ass. Oops, see that ; ) messages like that could piss people off.
Funniest post ever--a couple days ago. The whole "I'm gonna throw the word 'fuck' into every sentence I type. It's ok because Nick said I could."
I definitely took that one seriously. At all.
gotta throw in my token emoticon now to avoid offending anyone. ;-) + :-P = :-)
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"...There is a crushing guilt that comes with being a Catholic. Whether things are good or bad or you're simply... eating tacos in the park, there is always the crushing guilt."
-30 Rock-
I lived in Tempe, AZ for nearly 6 years--the hometown of constant construction. What are they building? Why is the road being torn apart and piced back together every other week? WHO KNOWS!! Because nothing ever gets done! They had to move a few classes a few years ago because they were scheduled to take place in the brand-new bio research building, except they were still constructing it when the semester started--that wasn't finished getting built until almost a year after the planned time. And they're building some light rail train thing to go all over Phoenix. It was supposed to be done over a year ago. They're still tearing up the road in most places and messing up traffic everywhere for that one.
I am no stranger to waking up to construction. ;-)
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"...There is a crushing guilt that comes with being a Catholic. Whether things are good or bad or you're simply... eating tacos in the park, there is always the crushing guilt."
-30 Rock-
Hey, it could be worse. We live near a train that runs up to every 5 minutes. There's this one particular conductor that blares the horn for the entire duration of its journey through the city. I swear that guy seriously must be deaf. I like to think that he lived near a train as a kid, and now he's taking out all of his anger on the rest of the world.
Next I wonder what if the conductor is really a woman, and rewrite my vision.
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No one rushes outside to turn off their alarms.
But at least the loud ones draw attention to the vehicle.
If someone was breaking into a car and the alarm started blaring, chances are someone is going to look. And a thief won't like people looking at him while he's trying to steal the car, so chances are, he'll go elsewhere.
That's what they're for.
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So if it's going off for 25 minutes, it's either an idiot teenager who's never done this before, or it isn't really being stolen.
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Ha I am going to get one of those ribbon things for my bat... it will say shut your alarm off in 20 secs or I will
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Maybe the point is, people SHOULD rush out and turn off their car alarms. Alarms may have a purpose, but not if the humans don't play their part in it. The car alarm is for that one car, not for the entire neighborhood. I'm pretty sure that at 5:30am no one wakes up to that thinking, "Oh god! Stop that theif!!! He's getting away with my neighbor's car!!" Because of laziness, and maybe other things, too, the obnoxious car alarm has become impractical. In my opinion.
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It is rare that I can complain and story top at the same time, so I will give it a try...
Car alarms are obvious- $100. Construction can be perceived-$101. Random idiot pilots breaking the sound barrior repeatedly at to low an altitude- Priceless
Three times this week I have spent over thirty minutes praying my house did not cave in... this is no exaggeration. Two hours calming my less then two year old. Twenty day (it feels like) explaining to my five year old what that was and of course ever pending why. And thirty minutes cleaning up what the racket scared out of my dogs.
Thank you new airplanes, I really benefited from mommy drills.
Hmmm.... it only took ten minutes for the entire neighborhood to get their activated car alarms into check...maybe military is a cut above.
Thanks for the post and I hope you get some rest or dreams of shotgun revenge.
~T
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oh I grew up on various Air Force bases. I know all about the
It's also really fun when you move overseas and your high school is on the base and class gets interrupted 4 or 5 times a day while the teacher just stands there, impatiently tapping his or her foot, waiting for the noise to clear.
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I never did high school on base but when we were stationed in japan we invariably had some training class to attend. When a C-5 (very big gray plane with four turbine engine thingys- two on each wing) would take off... the lights would go out, the projector would flip off for the twenty minutes it would take for the beast to leave. AT least the computer would saty on ????... I guess that is why a three day course took a week.
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I was unaware my car had an alarm system until one day when my key pad stopped working and I was forced to unlock my car the old-fashion way, which, for some reason, set off an alarm. It took me a few minutes, but I was finally able to stop it but by that time the whole parking lot was staring at me and my friends were laughing at me.
And what about those panic buttons? I am convinced that the purpose of the panic button is actually to locate your car in a large parking lot and not to actually scare off a thief. Although, surprising your friends/siblings by pushing the panic button right as their hand touches the door handle is pretty fun.
My neighbor has the biggest speakers ever in his car and he cranks the bass, so every time he pulls up, he sets off car alarms up and down the street and in the parking garage behind us. He is gradually destroying everyone's hearing. The best part of it, though, is that his car is a rusty old Ford Explorer, so the bass rattles the hell out of his car! It would be pretty comical if it weren't so actually, physically painful.
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