My mother says that if there was really a fire, the Burger King staff would stop cooking and leave. A few minutes later the alarm stops. Flight 666 to a fiery death has been cancelled, ladies and gentlemen, we regret any inconvenience. Apparently, somebody had opened an emergency exit door. It s a bit anticlimactic.
People say things like, Finally, that noise stopped.
After I was off the phone, of course, and get back to checking their watches and grumbling about rain delays.