Last night was a little crazy in good old Summer Wood Apartments. Last night around 11:30 pm, just shortly after a comeback win in Cities and Knights against both Dad and Drew, the FIRE ALARM went off. Edon was sleeping, the was barking like the end of the world had come upon us, and I was trying to find some pants. So I gathered my family, okay they waited for me to get dress and we rushed out into the freezing sub Arctic blizzard. (More like flurries, but the story sounds better in a blizzard) During the mad rush, we all go separated, Edon and the dog went out the back door and opened it for the firemen while I rushed out the front. To give you a more accurate picture the Davenports acted like this was real fire and as we ran out of the complex our neighbors just peeked out of their peepholes. So we reunited at the meet point, our green car, as the fireman told us to go back inside. It was great. So as we returned to our home Edon was lecturing me on proper sleeping attire in case we couldn't spare the extra seconds in finding something to cover my G's.
As we crawled back into bed we could hear the fire department trucks pull away. As we start to fall asleep there is that moment when you begin the good part of deep sleep I was right at that moment when the sirens were blaring and the dog was barking and Edon screaming. So I began to locate my pants once again and being lectured on the proper sleeping attire once again. I went out...alone...to brave the Chicago blizzard...while Edon was in bed sleeping. Apparently one when the fire sprinkles go off they have this smell like natural gas, one of our neighbors who slept through the first alarm awoke to the smell of natural gas and called the fire department. The person didn't believe the firemen so around 1:30 AM the gas company was summoned to prove to the tenet that it was just the sprinkler system from the fire. Got to love living in an Apartment!!!
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