Winter Time Fire Drill

This is not what you want at your office on the coldest day of the year so far- A mandatory evacuation and fire trucks outside.

Some dummy pulled the fire-alarm in my building, forcing hundreds to shiver in the cold for forty minutes and then fight for room on the elevator to get back upstairs. I think it was the same guy who seems to wait until the hottest day of the year to sabotage the air conditioning units on my floor.

And I noticed that there were a few firewomen among the crew, carrying axes and prybars. They weren’t very pretty and I’m certain they could kick my ass in a fight. Which of course makes sense. But in my mind I suppose I expected this:

Yeah, I know, inside every man is a junior-high school kid that harbors adolescent fantasies.