Yikes!

Our smoke detector is LOUD.

Especially when the batteries go flat in the middle of the night.
There's nothing quite like being awoken by bone-chilling beeping and believing the house is on fire...

But I guess it's a good thing. Because there's no way we'll sleep through that racket, and that's kind of the point with those things. I only wish it'll run out of batteries when I'm not sleeping and just startle me instead of scaring the crap out of me!