At about 3 AM the whole building got evacuated. There was this thick white smoke coming from the basement. Some lines heard from the evacuees: “Hey man, anyone got a light?” “Why the hell couldn’t I live in a REAL dorm? I had to live in Peet!”
We stood around for about 10 minutes and no one showed up. You’d think security would really hop to it if there was a fire. So I went in another building, called both 911 and security, and came back out just in time to see the fire trucks roaring down the street.
(If I’m ever in real danger, to hell with security - I’m just calling 911. They got there in about 2 minutes, while security took damn near 20.)
So they checked it out, wouldn’t tell us what was going on, just hustled everyone back in the building. The firefighters were saying “Are you sure that’s a good idea? Can we take a look at it first?” and the security officer was saying “No, I want to get these guys inside. Whoever did it’s got Birkenstocks.”
In that case, good luck EVER finding the perp.
I thought I was going to get lots of sleep tonight, and wake up ready to do homework tomorrow. There’s no way I’m getting to sleep now, especially not with the hallways as smoky as they still are, so I’m sitting up on the computer with my window open.
Well, it could, depending on your viewpoint, be worse.
For me, while I was in college, we’d have some bozo or another pull the fire alarm pretty much every other day. Was there a fire? No. Did we have to evacuate the building each and every time? Yes.
College just plain sucks, I tell ya. Except, of course, for the free booze (some colleges - not mine - also have free lovin’, YMMV).
Could be worse. The two weeks before spring break, there were three bomb threats phoned in to the largest building at my university. It’s at the point where we have a contingency plan for bomb threats. Odds are, this is all the work of some dumb bastards who didn’t study for their midterms; I and some others would love to find these people and express our displeasure.
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So they checked it out, wouldn’t tell us what was going on, just hustled everyone back in the building. The firefighters were saying “Are you sure that’s a good idea? Can we take a look at it first?” and the security officer was saying “No, I want to get these guys inside. Whoever did it’s got Birkenstocks.”
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Whoever did it’s got Birkenstocks? I’m filing that away on my mental list of oddest things I’ve heard or read.
Having lived in a dorm and a “student-living” apartment complex, I’m intensely grateful that I now reside in a apartment complex largely filled with people other than students. If there’s anything I hate, it’s a fire alarm in the middle of a cold night. Particularly if it’s the work of some drunken jackass.
