When I was cooking a hot-dog in the kitchen, the fire alarm suddenly went off in my room. It was so keen and loud that I got more or less upset. As it has no killing switch on it, I had to clear the smoke so that the alarm stops ringing. I did whatever I could do; blew on it, fanned it with an electric fan and covered it with my hand. Of course the window had been open and I had been using the ventilating fan in the kitchen but it seems to have been choked with dust and oil. When the alarm stopped automatically after five minutes my hot-dog was in a terrible situation. I could only curse the too sensitive fire alarm in my room. Similar things happen in other rooms in my apartment almost every week. The fire alarm might be too sensitive or the ventilation system might be ineffective or both of them. What I'm anxious about is that we are accustomed to the alarm sound. It is suspicious whether we can properly react the sound in the case of real fire. Too sensitive alarm is useless just like the "The shepherd boy and the wolf" in Aesop's Fables.
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