That damn smoke detector

So a while ago this thing starts emitting a very short, obnoxious chirp
every fifteen minutes. Oh no. It's that time again: Battery going flat.
And my neighbor from whom I usually borrow the ladder not home. Goof
thing the wife ain't home neither because she probably would have
divorced me after seeing me balance on top of a precarious stack of
unfit furniture to take the damn thing down.

robert
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