Changing Batteries at 3AM

I was sitting across from my coworker, Carla, telling her how one of our smoke alarms started chirping at 3 am and my wife and I spent forever replacing batteries, trying to figure out which one was the culprit.

“I couldn’t get back to sleep afterward, and now I’m exhausted.”

Carla leaned back and asked, “How did you have that many batteries?”

I gave her a…