Who needs sleep

I've moved to the new place, a twenty storey building downtown. My first night I was woken up at 6:30 by what sounded like church bells. After failing to turn off the small travel alarm clock near the bed I decided something that loud couldn't come form something that small - it must be something else, better get out of bed. It's coming from a cupboard? No, the ceiling..yes. It's the smoke alarm, but there's no fire in here (I think)..I turned it off, but the noise continued in the hall....ahh, it's a fire alarm. Having worked in a place where fire alarms happened what seemed like every week, I've become desensitized so listened to hear if other people were leaving; I couldn't hear any doors opening or closing so I thought I'd go back to bed...but what if I'd slept through it for a while (I'd done it before*) and they'd already gone downstairs, I better go down. 15 storey's later I met my fellow concerned residents, all 12 of them. It turns out this is a regular occurrence i heard things like "do you remember that week when it was twice a night", and "it's usually some homeless guy who's bored"...great, I'll leave a Sudoku book by the fire alarm then! The next night there was no fire alarm, but my fumbling with the alarm clock managed to set the alarm for 4am....that was a nice surprise too.

* At university one drunken evening I slept through a fire alarm in the hall I was in. I only woke up when the warden opened the door to my room - a loud alarm wont wake me, but you turn that door handle and I'm up like a shot!