Ever thought you don’t know the people you are living with in the same apartment building?
Well a good way to see them all is a fire alarm, best performed in the middle of the night.

That’s what happened. After I realised what that f*cking loud beeping noise was that woke me
up I remembered the first rule mentioned on every fire alarm poster: Keep calm! So I put on
some sneakers, grabbed my hoodie, mobile, wallet and got out of the building. One after the
other all the tenants of the building came out. Funny enough, Kiwis wear the same close day
and night. 80% were barefoot with shorts and t-shirts, a few weirdos had shoes on. So we
stood outside for half an hour watching the fire fighters arrive to check the building and I
had to check myself as alive and well on some funky check board outside of the building.

After half an hour the fire men came out again and told us to get back to bed without telling
us the reason for the fire alarm. But after a friend of mine initiated the same procedure some
days ago by making a toast a bit too crunchy I guess somebody was just cooking excessively
at night.

Oh did I mention that it was raining the whole time? It was but luckily just drizzling rain.