Today, while trying to sleep after a night shift, workers came to hook up city sewage service, firing up drills and shouting. An hour later, my child woke me up to tattle on her sister. Just as I was drifting to sleep yet again, the smoke alarm battery started chirping. I give up. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my smoke alarm went off. In a frenzy, I called 9-1-1 and exited my house. Several minutes later a fire truck showed up. After investigating, one of the firemen informed me I needed to change the batteries in my smoke alarm. FML
Today, my smoke alarm started chirping at 3 a.m. I replaced the battery, reset it, and got back into bed. Five minutes later, it chirped again. I searched for the source before realizing it was my roommate's alarm clock. FML
Today, my dad set the smoke alarm off at 6 a.m. as a "practice drill." I was woken up so suddenly, I fell out of bed into the bucket of sick I had been throwing up into the night before due to flu. Dad yelled at me for not getting out of the house in time. FML
Today, I was looking forward to my only day to sleep-in this month while I'm balancing school and work. I was rudely awakened at 6 am by my sister and her friend trying to make pancakes, burning them, and setting off the fire alarm in my house for half an hour. FML
Today, my friends thought it'd be funny to hold lighters under the smoke alarms while I was sleeping. FML
Today, I'm dead on my feet. My flatmate's alarm went off for 20 minutes at 5 a.m., which I heard and he didn't. A car alarm went off outside my window for half an hour at 7 a.m. My building fire alarm went off twice, at 8 and 8:10 a.m. Just let me sleep. FML
Today, I was making dinner when my smoke alarm started going off. I opened all the windows and waved a towel underneath it. After ten minutes, I realized the alarm wasn't reacting to the food. Its battery was dying. FML
Today, after spending 6 hours straight working on a project at school, I decided to call it a night. The instant I set foot out of the lab, the building started screaming. The maintenance guy had set the alarm without telling me. The police had to let me out. FML
Today, after two hours, I finally got my very cranky, sick baby to fall asleep. Five minutes later, a neighbor started shooting off fireworks. FML
Today, in the early hours of the morning, a worker started drilling the road right in front of my window. He stopped 5 minutes before my alarm clock rang. FML
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Top comments
marc hillyer 2
story of my life 3rd shift sucks
Alayna Joyce Christensen 16
Earplugs will become your best friends. but, seriously, start looking for a different shift job. people who have children shouldn't do nights because you will never get enough sleep to function properly. I have worked the graveyard shift myself off and on for 13 years. no kids, and that is the only way I have the chance to sleep decently.
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Comments (6)
RichardPencil 32
City sewer service? Fancy! You must think you’re hot shit.
marc hillyer 2
story of my life 3rd shift sucks
Rae Miller 10
Mine too
mattyiscool123 26
At least the smoke alarm chirping isn’t hard to fix
anothermaria 9
Working night shifts is the worst thing ever let me tell ya
Alayna Joyce Christensen 16
Earplugs will become your best friends. but, seriously, start looking for a different shift job. people who have children shouldn't do nights because you will never get enough sleep to function properly. I have worked the graveyard shift myself off and on for 13 years. no kids, and that is the only way I have the chance to sleep decently.