Today, the workplace evacuation bell sounded. Out of panic after the recent earthquake, I ran down 21 flights of stairs, only to find out it was a false alarm. My legs are on fire, and I can barely walk. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I walked up sixteen flights of stairs to my room to avoid the lift lines. When I was almost at the top, the fire alarm sounded. FML
Today, at work, we had a fire drill. I was the first to run out of the building, but in my haste, I tripped on the stairs, and rolled down the flight. When I got to the bottom, I tried to stand up, but my ankle was already swelling. What felt like the entire office watched as I limped to the designated meeting point. FML
Today, we had a fire drill in my dorm, and I live on the 7th floor of my building. They shut the elevators down and I had to walk down 14 flights of steps. I shattered my kneecap last week. They turned the alarm off when I got to the first floor. FML
Today, I went for a run in a new pair of shoes that left me with huge blisters. As I finished cleaning them up so they could heal, I limped to my bed to take a nap. I was woken by the fire alarm. My building was having a drill and we couldn't use the elevators. I live on the 9th floor. FML
Today, with a single misstep, I managed to send myself and several others tumbling down a stairwell at work. An ambulance ended up having to be called for one lady. FML
Today, I tripped while rushing to my classes. In a desperate attempt to regain my balance, I grabbed the nearest thing to me. A fire alarm. FML
Today, I had horrible diarrhea at work. When I felt the bubbling, I ran to the bathroom. An agonizing bowel movement later, I realized that there was no toilet paper in the stall. Just as I was about to ask a coworker who was in the bathroom for some, the fire alarm went off. FML
Today, I tried to sneak out of work 15 minutes early. Just as I reached the exit, the fire alarm went off. Everyone had to evacuate, and my manager spotted me standing outside with my backpack already on. There went my excuse… FML
Today, my fire alarm startled me so badly that I shat myself. FML
Today, after climbing eight flight of stairs due to electricity outage, I got to work only to find the office locked. FML
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ariannaimelda 7
Perhaps this is a sign to work out more. If you did that everyday you'll get killer legs :D
Notime4bull 4
OP is obviously half human torch.
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Comments (183)
BloodyMary666 24
Were u the only one runnig?
DasHaas 9
Panic is the deadliest thing in any disaster. Fun fact: if everybody remains calm, the odds of anyone dying during a major disaster are really low. If everybody panics, THEN a lot of people end up dead.
Zaffro 8
Why does one tiny quake send everybody in the US running? I was 47 floors up in the shower during a 6.9 the last thing I was thinking was to head anywhere. I enjoyed the buildings wobble in fact although made me feel at sea.
ogle5431 1
So you guys had a little earthquake. Move to California and experience a real one. Until then stop being such a drama queen.
FKJVMMP 17
Come on, man. I'm from Christchurch, New Zealand (home of an earthquake that killed almost 200 people in February, that has shut down our Central Business District since. And two pretty major earthquakes four months either side of that, that didn't kill anybody), you don't know shit about earthquakes. For a start, what does an evacuation bell have to do with an earthquake? If it was an earthquake, you'd know about it well before the bell sounded. As far as I'm aware, earthquakes don't trigger fires or terrorist attacks or anything else days later that would set off alarms either. Grow some balls, come on. And 74, you're wrong. About earthquakes, anyway. Panic can help in earthquakes, the only people that survived in the CTV building in our earthquake (the place where most people died, as the building collapsed) were ones that panicked and ran out of the building, or lucky people who happened to be on the top floor and not knocked unconscious by falling debris.
OhHeySlogan 4
At least you're not dead. Hurray for being cautious.
incrapper 7
hi :)
okieraider71 4
Going down shouldn't hurt you that bad. Get to a gym.
incrapper 7
yeah exactly, Ay tubby lay off the donuts a little
pandora_geass 9
Did it not occur to OP to see what other people were doing? And if she did, then there must have been a hell of a lot of people with flamin' legs. Or OP just doesn't work out enough--it doesn't take that much energy to run DOWN stairs. There's an 80 year old man living in my building that goes up and down the stairs of 30 floors repetitively every day as a form of exercise. I take into account that OP may have experienced an unknown event that could have caused OP to have an unnatural reaction to an alarm. But, still, the average man/woman would take a quick look around to see if others also thought it was a necessary cause to run down 21 flights.
s_bloodnozzle_iz 0
running DOWN stairs isn't that hard. if it was UP then bro, ouch.
kayvan 8
Time to hit the gym. You'll get a much improved cardiovascular system and feel better about yourself too.