Are you terrified of smoke alarms?

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Are you terrified of smoke alarms?

Do I hate the sound and want to die when I hear them? Yes
Am I terrified of having my life saved from a fire? No

I am not afraid of them but they do provide too many false alarms. Many times they occur during the middle of the night when I am sound asleep. For that reason, I rely on carbon monoxide alarms. They are more stable.

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I was terrified of them as a child because sudden loud noise would scare me and I never knew when it would be going off again. Opening up windows solved the problem. Smoke alarms can't tell between fire smoke and steam from the water when you are cooking, same as when you open the oven and smoke comes out or you accidentally burn something on the stove.

I usually just find them annoying, especially when they go off constantly and there is no fire. I once lived in a home where the alarm went off all the time. It was heat and not actual smoke that set it off, so it would go off whenever someone was cooking a meal. We'd go into the hallway and try fanning it until it stopped but it would just start up again.

That home was very strict about fire safety. We had firemen stickers on our bedroom windows so that firefighters would know where we slept, we would be reminded once a month at least on how to use an extinguisher, and we had to watch a creepy video about escaping from a fire. It might have been because one of the people living there once lost everything she had in a fire.

Smoke alarms don't bother me because they are rhythmic. If they were beeping randomly, I'd have to smash them.

No, I'm more terrified of fires.

On one occasion on my university campus, I was awoken at 2 or 3 in the morning to a ghastly noise and flashing lights. I was convinced for a few seconds that a nuclear apocalypse was underway.

But it was just a wretched fire drill.

Only in the fact that the NSA has tiny surveillance cameras installed inside them.

Any alarms -- Never.
Not fire drills, not even with real emergencies, never.

At worst they're annoying for just being noisy on a false alarm. If anything, I'd likely be annoyed at those who panics and would bother me in the process than the chaos it may ensue.

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Afraid of the sound of them? Not in the slightest. I have never had the reaction to them I read about here.

Anxious that if it does go off it's not a false alarm and terrified of the real risk of a fire? You bet! Fire terrifies me.