It happened again (i.e. third time in a month).
Sleeping peacefully in my room, and some moron in Syracuse University (where I’m interning for the summer) decides that it’s time for a fire drill…at 5:30 AM. ** MORONS! **
If only I knew who this was, I would be very glad to provide a speenectomy for them…
AARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!
At Ithaca College, they have two residence halls, each with 13 (or is it 14?) floors, called, aptly enought, the Towers.
For two years, a great number of my friends, lived on the 13th floor of the West Tower.
Seems that it was great sport for fucking noodleheads to pull the fire alarms at ungodly hours of the morning. Of course, during a fire drill, you cannot use the elevators. So, my friends, and myself, were I unlucky enough to be crashing there for the evening, had to walk down 13 fucking flights of stairs while the fire trucks and campus safety came and checked the place out.
A couple hundred of us would stand around outside in the usually freezing weather for a half-hour or so. Fun!
This happened so many times during one semester, that my friends would keep a frisbee right next to the door so that they would have something to do during the almost nightly 1/2 hour sleep deprivation period. City officials warned the school that if they couldn’t do something about it, they were going to be fined a hefty amount.
I had many experiences just like this in the dorms when I was in school.
All I can say is, never underestimate the complete stupidity of drunken undergrads.
Where I went, it was actually a hazing event for a certain frat to have plebes do this. We were so happy about this. Or not. Now that I reflect on it, it was definitly NOT.
At some point in the early morning hours a pipe leaked onto the wiring for the fire alarm setting it off. About 25 people lived in that house. Not one single person woke up till the firemen arrived and they managed to wake one guy. The alarm was quite loud…trust me. It didn’t matter.
So, you want to know how to avoid being awakened for fire drills as myself and 20+ other people managed? Have a party every night and drink yourself into oblivion around 3:30 in the morning. That should do it for ya!
Not to be a real Pollyanna, but…
My college was pretty rigorous with the drills, too. They always tried to have a few that would catch most people asleep, presumably to see how well we did when dazed.
Well, I’ll be damned if I didn’t recently read in the alumnae magazine that an alum was in a hotel fire recently. She said the firemen actually came up to her to compliment her on being just about the only guest who had pulled her head out of her ass enough to wear shoes and bring a towel, just like we had DRILLED into us in those damn alarms…
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Speaking of large groups of drunks. The University of Georgia no longer allows “common alcohol containers” in their dorms (even if all present are 21). The reason - at some point, a bunch of idiots were having a kegger on the 9th floor of one of the highrise dorms. They decided it would be really cool to toss the entire fucking keg out the window. It just happened to crush the dorm manager’s car. So there after hunch punch had to be brewed in stealth mode.
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