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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