10:29pm: Morons
Walk down to Haggens to get breakfast and lunch for later, both a derivation of a bagel. I like bagels.
As I'm sitting there waiting for the bus, I observe what I see about 70% of mornings.
There's this door by the deli/seating portion of the store that is both
a normal exit and a fire door, so it can't ever be locked. But it
does have an alarm on it.. The alarm is only turned off from 8AM to 9PM.
Excuse me while I venture off into an Eddy Of Stupid(tm) for a moment.
THIS IS NOT WHAT THE SIGN SAYS. The sign says, roughly, "Door unlocked from 9PM to 8AM. Alarmed all other times".
Unless you're a backward traveling time-traveler from Ceti Alpha 5,
this is not the way time flows. Time is *linear*. It goes
*foreward*. Unless I missed a memo again?
Ok, so they hired a backward traveling time-traveler to write their
signs. I'm open minded. But unless there's an bunch of
backward traveling time-travelers from Ceti Alpha 5 about to invade,
someone should have caught this. This is what we call an Orgy Of
Stupidity.
Ok, back to the main topic.
About 70% of the time some idiot fails to read the 2' x 2' sign glued
to the door itself that says "Hey fuckwad, don't open this right now!".
And then they open it. And the alarm goes off.
Now, this is a *neat* alarm. No warbling or screeching or
anything. Just a single constant sinwave at a tone such that it
wants to crawl inside your ear and eat your brain. I like it.
Apparently the morons don't. All 5 other people in the seating area fled within about 30 seconds.
I kept eating my bagel. They were pretty good today.