I just burned something and it set off my smoke alarm.  Probably very pleasing for my neighbors at 2am.

Reminds me of something that happend in January.  The lot of our IT team was in new york, living in a hotel for a month, while we were finishing and rolling out this major system we just completed.  The typical day was meet in the lobby at 8am, in the office by 8:30, back to the hotel by 5 or 6am the next day.  Lather rinse repeat.

During about the third week of this schedule we were all WAY sleep deprived.  We got back to the hotel around 4am.  We all crashed.  At roughly 6am, the hotel fire alarms went off.  I didn't know what the fuck was going on personally.  I threw my alarm across the room, that didn't work.  I threw my phone across the room.  That didn't work.  I tried to turn off the alarm on the lamp.  No, the lamp didn't have an alarm...but what the hell did I know?  I was on like 4 hours sleep in the prior 3 days.

I finally realized what it was, woke up, and began trying to dissassemble the alarm mechanism.  No...not trying to escape, or even see what was going on.  I wanted it to shut up so I could go to sleep.  It stopped.  I slept.  10 minutes later it went off again.  This time I didn't try to turn off the lamp, I just attempted to sleep through it.

Funny thing was, as we all gathered in the morning, we all apparrently went through similar experiences with trying to "turn things off" that weren't actually making the sound.  Also, nobody left his room.  We all individually made a value judgement about how far we were from various exits, how bad it would be to go out the window, and whether or not we would rather burn to death as long as we could sleep while doing so.