Gym? I don't need no stinking gym!

[deird_lj]

Today I had to walk down 13 flights of stairs.
...which was actually harder than it sounds.

Seriously - you'd think that up would be the hard bit, and down would pretty much come naturally, but apparently not. By the end, my calves were killing me!


This is all because we had our yearly Office Fire Drill.
An event which was severely complicated by the fact that the one person on our floor who knows where the emergency staircase is, is currently in hospital. We spent several minutes wandering aimlessly around the office, opening random cupboards, trying to find the stairs before the imaginary fire incinerated our floor...


I now have several photos of a skyscraper's-worth of people all standing around in a nearby park.

Comments

[taiba.livejournal.com]

It's generally a good idea for everyone to be familiar with emergency proceedings from day 1.... :-p

I walked up and down the Menzies a week ago. My calves only just recovered yesterday. I wish we had stairs at school - I wouldn't need a gym then :-p

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of the time my office in NYC had a fire drill ... and actually had a fire break out on the scheduled day. So people went to the assigned spots on the floor, but no one showed up to give the usual safety speech, so everyone went back to their desks. Finally on the 44th floor, people saw a sign being held up by the people in the high-rise across the street, saying "FIRE - GET OUT." Those of us on lower floors saw stuff falling off the sides of the building and decided to get out. That was 21 flights of stairs for me, 44 for the people at the top, but everyone got out okay. Not a word over the intercom through all this...

Glad your fire was imaginary!

[padawanspider.livejournal.com]

This is why you slide down the handrails for a few flights.

(Just kidding.)

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

BUT WHAT IF THERE ARE NO HANDRAILS????

/creepiness

[padawanspider.livejournal.com]

Then you start leaping down the stairs two at a time!

Doesn't everybody?

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Oh, but most certainly not! I can't do it, even if not leaping - I'd fall. :(

[1c2k3p4p5c.livejournal.com]

Sounds as if you all needed that drill!

[next_to_normal]

I'm with you. I live and work on the 10th floor (um, in different buildings), so I've done my share of fire drill stair-descending. I find down to be harder than up, actually, because I kind of get vertigo going down.

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Ah, but now you're prepared, and know where the fire exit is! ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT A SKYSCRAPER FIRE, DEIRD!!! EVER THINK ABOUT THAT????

I'm intense today. :D

(In case you missed the ref, it's "Only you can prevent forest fires" from Smokey the Bear, the something something Forest something something National cartoon representative.)

Anyways...stairs suck. I dislike them a lot.

Because I'm lazy.

Today I had to stand around for a while waiting for stuff, and I kept sitting down on the floor cause there were no chairs, and cause I was too lazy to stand. I then got accused of laziness.

Dang people with their...accusations.

[deird1]

Definitely missed the reference, there - we have no forest fires, and thus no Smokey the Bear.

(Maybe we should start having possum mascots to warn us about bush fires? Or something?)