Something that I am thankful for is smoke detectors. I’m sure they save lives. Since I no longer live in a dorm and have to evacuate every time one goes off I am 100% in support of smoke detectors.
However.
Why…
WHY do they only need batteries replaced in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT?
Since moving into this house I have NEVER noticed in the middle of the day a beeping to remind me to replace a smoke detector battery. No.. It is ALWAYS in the middle of the night.
Like last night… when I was trying so hard to go to bed at a reasonable hour. So dedicated to this idea that I took melatonin (which I’ve not done in ages) to ensure an early bedtime.
And what happened about 1:30 a.m?
The distant *beep* every 30 seconds.
In my disoriented state I shut my bedroom door thinking I could change the battery the next morning.
Then…
after 20 minutes of beeps…
muffled as they were…
I had to get up. Turn on lights. Go dig through my battery box to find the rectangle batteries. FIND which detector was beeping. Drag a chair into the room. Change the battery. Find out I put it in backwards so it had to be redone. Test the detector. Reset the detector. Put the chair away. Put the batteries away. Go crawl back into bed.
*BOOM* Wide awake. *sigh*
If I get tired I have to go to bed ASAP because if I miss that window I get a second wind and stay up all night.
So… is the enemy smoke detectors or my insomnia?
The correct answer is probably insomnia, but I’m going to say both.
What other things only happen in the middle of the night?
Burst pipes? Maybe because temperatures drop at night…
Kids have a tantrum when you’re in a rush? Maybe rushing kids is a trigger… rushed kids are anxious kids.
Smoke detectors beeping in the middle of the night? That is just pure wretchedness w/ no logical explanation.
Redheaded Jill 
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