in which I wish I had a car

[dchenes]

The battery in my smoke detector decided it had had enough at 6:37 this evening. I ran down to the convenience store to get a replacement, because I don't use 9-volt batteries for anything else and thus had no spares. Neither did the convenience store, so I had to go up to the grocery store instead.

Between the time the smoke detector went *bleep* the first time and the time I got home and put a new battery in it, 57 minutes elapsed. If I'd had a car, it could've been half an hour.

Sigh.