Smoke alarm problems.

The other morning at 5:40am, my smoke alarm started beeping, since its battery had begun to run out.

I had to set up a chair on my bed and stand on it and take the alarm down from the ceiling to get it to stop beeping, all while sleepy, so I could go back to sleep again.  The chair wobbled, too.

That night after work, I replaced the battery and put it back up.  I wanted to put it off, but I was superstitious that if I did that, that that would turn out to be the one night I would actually need my smoke alarm.