So you are telling me that 86 years ago they had SpectrAlert Advances then since you are 100 years old according to your profile and you would have entered high school when you were 14. So that would have been 1933 when I’m not sure that ANY horns would have been around.
You DO see where I am coming from right?
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[off-topic]Either they used a bogus DoB or they’re just trying to troll, if it’s the latter then it’s rather more amusing that anything else.[/off-topic]
Anyways back on topic, I’ll just add something else to what I stated on my fear of FAs:
So as you know I used to be afraid of FAs up until I was 14 or so years old, right? This is where it gets complicated.
My fear really spiked when I was in kindergarten (mind you I don’t live in America, rather on the other side of the pond as you would say :mrgreen:, so yeah I assume this is the equivalent to my country’s “école Maternelle”), from that I literally used to eavesdrop conversations to hear when a fire drill would be planned (that didn’t work out for obvious reasons…) and upon hearing the FA, I would literally freeze, completely paralyzed by fear (yes).
When I turned 10, I started to gradually become less wary of the FA, this is also what started my interest and fascination (I used to watch YouTube Videos of the sound of the FA, I suppose that most people did that to… Uh… Tone their fear down?), when I entered Junior High, I was less afraid but more startled than anything else.
When I graduated from Junior High (or whatever the equivalent of French “Collège” is) to a “Lycée” (or whatever equivalent you have in NA), we didn’t have any fire alarms (belive it or not but the lycée I attended to was very small, probably one of the smallest school establishments in France!) we did however had smoke alarms in the classrooms (I can tell you that I was sorta flabbergasted when I saw that, am not kiddin’!)
To this day, I’m still startled, hearing the FA kick in is enough to make me jump, but that’s about it.