The game was going very well. I had just finished adding a forest for the deer and elk, when I first got promoted. Then I got everything ready for the porcupines. And the skunks and mice. Then every other herbivore imaginable. Soon I'd be ready for predators.
I went into the computer. I was already several levels up, an Owl Level Ranger. Well, that's only two, but close enough. I didn't put any human stuff in. That makes it much harder to concentrate on the good stuff. I continued going up, and up, more levels than you care to hear, probably. And it was going awesome-ly. I know that's not a word, I just can't think of what else to say.
Then a noise. Not Risum trying to tell me some poem about Bluejays. Not a little ding paired with a little green envelope to signal I have mail. Not some animal noise that I would never worry about. No, this noise was the killer of all noises. "BREEEP! BREEP! BREEEP!" it went. The fire alarm. And I was simply confounded.
I looked at my park, it was so good, growing, and I was going to keep getting better and better, until, with those three stupid sounds, a fire started.