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Good morning peevers, and it is another ultra fantastic day here.
Yesterday was superb and it was topped off by heading out further into the countryside after work to a glorious pub where we held an event for a colleague.
Today we have a massively interesting talk at work which I'm really looking forward to.
Yesterday at work I was aware of a strange mechanical sound which was at odds with my 17th Century surroundings. It sounded a bit like an alarm but it wasn't.
That's got me thinking about today's peeve- it's weird how these ideas come into my head as I type away.
Alarms!
For every true alarm how many false ones are there?
Smoke alarms, burglar alarms, car alarms, you name it.
They all add to the cacophony of daily life and increase our stress levels, though for some I guess the presence of an alarm can give peace of mind.
False fire alarms - when I lived in student housing when I first moved to Finland the fire alarms went off pretty regularly, usually from people making toast, but always we had to go outside, wait for the fire brigade to come and check through the entire building before we could go back in. Not fun when it happened late at night or early in the morning!
And although its not really a false alarm, just a practice alarm really, it really freaked me out when I first came to Finland and I heard the city alarm being tested - sounds like an air raid siren! It used to be weekly then (I think) and was always how I knew it was 6pm on a Monday.
Happy weekend Jezer and great photos again,just wonderful...False alarms I never really had a problem with it..but my mother recently had..3 x in a row the apartment hall alarm going off and she was moved out with her walker in the cool night. Imagine standing there all fragile and cold for 1/2 hour each time,just to be told "Sorry its a false alarm",yet it is better to be safe than sorry. Great peeve Jezer
Good peeve, Jezer. Reminded me of when I first moved to Bocas from Colorado and I was green. It was evening and a loud siren went off - sounded like the air raid sirens you hear in the movies right before the bombs start falling Didn't know if the island was getting bombed, invaded or what. Turns out was just curfew and that's how they let the minors know it's time to get home and off the streets. I felt like an idiot though lol
Talk about raising your stress level......a car alarm, house alarm or smoke alarm will really drive me nuts, I have to get as far away as possible. My mom recently had an alarm installed in her house and she has trouble with it right now. Every time you open a door it "chimes".....beep, beep, beep! "garage door open" it's so annoying! The chime can be turned off but she doesn't want to turn it off for some reason and it scares the bejeebers out of me every time I open her door. Then she can't figure out how to set it to away, so there's a whole lot of beeping and talking going on when she's trying to do it. Alarms are good don't get me wrong but there sure are a whole lot of false ones to go around!
Great peeve, Jezer! At my last job, my firm's office was on the second floor of a bank building downtown. I had a corner office, with a street on one side and a busy parking lot on the other side. Also, one of the bank's alarms was just below my window. Over a period of several months, the alarm would go off once or twice a week for no apparent reason. It was terribly loud and scared the out of me every time it went sounded. It always took the bank a while to shut off the alarm, and I couldn't work at all while it was blaring. I just walked to the other end of the building to save my sanity.
Also at the same office, car alarms would often start sounding when no one was around them. Everyone just ignored them. Eventually someone would run out of a nearby building to shut off their alarm. It was very annoying. I don't see what good car alarms do when everyone ignores them!
I must confess to being part of the problem once, though. I had arrived home late at night and it was very dark. When I clicked my car's remote to lock it, I accidentally pressed the panic button and set the alarm off. I don't have a garage, so my car is parked between my house and the house next door. I felt terrible about setting the alarm off so late at night, as my neighbors' bedroom is very close to where I park.
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Hmm.. True.. the number of False Alarms is... Alarming..
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...False alarms I never really had a problem with it..but my mother recently had..3 x in a row the apartment hall alarm going off and she was moved out with her walker in the cool night. Imagine standing there all fragile and cold for 1/2 hour each time,just to be told "Sorry its a false alarm",yet it is better to be safe than sorry. Great peeve Jezer 
Didn't know if the island was getting bombed, invaded or what. Turns out was just curfew and that's how they let the minors know it's time to get home and off the streets. I felt like an idiot though lol
The chime can be turned off but she doesn't want to turn it off for some reason and it scares the bejeebers out of me every time I open her door. Then she can't figure out how to set it to away, so there's a whole lot of beeping and talking going on when she's trying to do it. Alarms are good don't get me wrong but there sure are a whole lot of false ones to go around!
out of me every time it went sounded. It always took the bank a while to shut off the alarm, and I couldn't work at all while it was blaring. I just walked to the other end of the building to save my sanity.
I had arrived home late at night and it was very dark. When I clicked my car's remote to lock it, I accidentally pressed the panic button and set the alarm off. I don't have a garage, so my car is parked between my house and the house next door. I felt terrible about setting the alarm off so late at night, as my neighbors' bedroom is very close to where I park. 
