On the one hand, I appreciate that my smoke detector emits a piercing noise that I would never be able to sleep through. I also appreciate, on some level, the fact that it contains a hard line to my building (not sure what this "hard line" involves, but sounds serious) such that even when the battery runs out, it continues to beep. After all, my safety and the safety of my neighbors is at issue here.
On the other hand, this beeping began after midnight last night, and while it stopped for a short while after we removed the battery, it resumed bright and early at 6am. Naturally, it had never occurred to us previously to keep spare 9 volt batteries on hand, there was no time to purchase one before work this morning, the super didn't have one handy either, and the noise level is so loud that I jumped a bit every time the thing went off...all in all, rendering me significantly less appreciative of the inherent fire safety. Couldn't this thing be rigged to beep a few times for a couple of hours so that I know to replace the battery, but then allow a longer rest time (say, a couple of days) before resuming? The whole experience was like living with a newborn for a night, the battery is presently still not replaced, and now instead of saving our neighbors with a swift alert of a fire hazard, we're probably going to be pushed out of the building for creating a noise disturbance!
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