Alarms don't mean anything these days

Last night, between 1:30 am and 3:00am, there was a loud alarm ringing through my neighbourhood. It was the kind which make the sound that used to signal the end of school in my days. It's also the kind of ringing sound used in movies to depict - guess what - alarms!

So for more than an hour and half, the alarm kept howling away in the night. I would have thought that the point of having an alarm is to alert whoever is in charge that there is a problem. An alarm ringing for an hour and a half does not help in any shape or form.

So I was stuck with the alarm for most of the night and could not sleep. Thank God I have the sixth season of Seinfeld to keep me company.