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The smoke alarm duet with my neighbor saved my burnt chili
Last Tuesday I walked away to grab a beer and came back to a pot of chili that looked like charcoal briquettes, plus my neighbor banging on the wall asking if I needed a fire truck. Has anyone else had a kitchen fail that turned into a weird bonding moment with someone nearby?
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cora86321d ago
The thing that gets me is how the smoke alarm basically turns into a group chat for the whole building. My old place on Fremont had alarms so touchy that boiling pasta set them off, and after like the third time in a month my upstairs neighbor just started texting me "you good?" before the fire truck even crossed her mind. We went from the kind of neighbors who just nod at the mailboxes to actually splitting a pizza on her porch while we waited for the beeping to stop. There is something about a shared false alarm that strips away all the polite distance faster than any block party ever could. So yeah, your neighbor banging on the wall was really just her version of a text, and honestly that burnt chili may have done more for your friendship than a casserole ever would.
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