Can you describe your current life situation in one word?
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March 26th, 2017
“Restriction”
I am living in a country where almost everything has restriction- Saudi Arabia. {Google for more info :) }This is not my home country. Working here.
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Retired But not in a rocking chair.
No. It would take me six.
@Dutchess_III
There is a new show on Netflix about a retired Japanese man learning to enjoy food.
It is called “Samurai Gourmet”.
Interesting and somewhat exhausting.
Thank you for the new word @flutherother. I’ve never seen the word cushty before. I’m glad life is good for you.
@janbb me, too. My sympathies.
Why are you upset? Have I missed something?
I’m currently upset because I got just a $200 bill from my landlord because I disconnected my smoke detector, which apparently disabled all of the fire alarms on my floor.
I swear to god, I was just trying to make the cheeping stop.
Eeek. That would upset me too.
Oily. LOL. Ooops, that’s two words. No, six. No, eight. No, ten. No, thirteen. OMG! SOMEBODY HELP MEEEEEE!!!!!!! OK. Nineteen. NO! Twenty-one… No, twenty-three, No, twenty-five….
@cinnamonk what grounds did your landlord have to charge you for that? Sounds bullshit & shady.
I don’t know. Even if I had damaged the smoke detector, I don’t understand how that could have affected the fire alarms throughout my floor. Plus, I did it a really long time ago – it might even have been in 2015. So apparently the fire alarms have been OOC for months and they only just now found out.
Yesterday was a bad day. :(
Perhaps they are all linked? If they are and you did something to yours, you could have knocked them all out. I can imagine smoke alarms in a rental situation could be exy. Especially if they’re all linked.
However, if your alarm was going off because it was faulty (and why else would it be going off if there was no smoke), then of course you had to try to shut it up. I don’t know what’s available in the US, but is there an ombudsman or some body you can talk to who can mediate for you? We have a rental authority that will deal with disputes between renters and landlords.
I hope today is better @cinna. :-)
I have a very hard time believing that you caused that.
@cinnamonk
If one tenant can disable a building’s complete alarm system simply by disabling their own, then there is something terribly wrong with that system and everyone in that building is at risk. It is probably hooked up in series, which is all wrong and very dangerous. It is beyond me how this was missed during the mandatory fire inspections of commercial buildings. These take place annually at the minimum unless you live in Toadfuckistan.
Call your local fire department and tell them your story.
Ask one of their qualified fire inspectors if it is possible that one tenant could disable a whole building’s system by unhooking their own alarm if that system is properly set up. If it isn’t possible—and it certainly should not be—you’ve just been scammed by your landlord. If it is possible, then your landlord is in deep shit. Your story to the fire inspector will most certainly trigger a fire inspection, providing your fire department isn’t as corrupt as your landlord.
I would then demand my money back from him. And then I would move as far away from that sonuvabitch as possible.
LOL. Your landlord’s word for today: Deep Shit.
Yours: I did the right thing for the people who live around me.
Hotels, motels and apartment buildings can have interconnected fire alarms. That is to get everyone out of the building !
They are hard wired and interconnected like my house which is primary power from AC 110V and back-up at each alarm of a DC 9V battery. One alarm goes off in my house; they all do, like last Fall at 2 AM. They all start chirping I had to go find the indicator light that showed I needed a new battery in one of them. Then I had to climb a ladder to install a new battery.
We have 4 bedrooms each one has a smoke detector in the bedroom on the ceiling and on ceiling right in the hall just outside the bedroom.
@Tropical_Willie So, if you disable one of your detectors, do all the alarms cease to function?
Cinnamonk describes disabling one chirping smoke detector which his landlord said shut down all the fire alarms on his floor.
Is this what happens when you disable one of your detectors?
No, @Espiritus_Corvus but “your mileage may vary” is the phase that comes to mind. That is becauseI don’t know the Fire Code requirements for multi-unit housing.
@Espiritus_Corvus, I can understand why they would be linked. If you have a multi-occupant building, you wouldn’t want a fire situation in one unit not to be communicated to others. If there is a possible fire, you’d want all residents to be alerted (even if it’s a false alarm). I’d say the smoke detectors would be similar to those in hotels rather than the ones we use in our homes that go off when you cook a steak.Of course, I have no idea if this is what’s happening in @cinnamonk‘s situation, but if it’s an apartment block, I could see this being very likely.
Last week I won movie tickets and passes to Canada Blooms/Home Show. I also won a pair of leggings from a fun Canadian company. I’m picking the leggings up tomorrow. Monday and today I had tickets to Canada Reads tapings.
I’m feeling cultured and giddy.
Leggings are the best thing ever….
Wolf. As in, the wolf is me. I refuse to let life demolish me. I will never be destroyed, at least not until I am.
Oh hey, so I cheated.
I do what I want. Awrooo!
Broke. And payday was just last Friday.
^Right there, with you. But, with resourcefulness, and a bit of “luck,” we’ll make it through…
A lot of the variables, is NEVER GIVE UP…
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