How abut off and on?
When we were younger, the weather warning siren in our neighborhood used to run a test at 1:00 PM on the first Shabbos of every month. It was very loud and annoying, and scary to some of the younger kids. My 3 year old brother was petrified of it.
After some successful lobbying by many community members, they cancelled the tests.
My mother heard of that accomplishment and came home to report, “The siren is not going to go off this week!”
My little brother got hysterical. “You mean it’s going to stay on the whole Shabbos?!!”
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