Facebook Note from 4/28/2010 ~ Emergency?

So I had this good day going and then it kind of went South on me. I was at my second job and was kind of bored. So I text messaged some people and ended up sending a text message about someone TO the someone it was about....oops. It wasn't bad, but I looked like an idiot.

So I text messaged the kids and told them about it and TYler told me to stop texting people. hmmmm...so I started walking around my room. It's an old, old school and the room or office I'm in is pretty small, but I'm kind of just walking around looking at stuff. I notice this button on the wall that said, "Press here to call". Hmmmm......I walked to the other side of the room and straightened a picture on the wall but kept looking at that button. Above it was this big old fashioned looking speaker. ANCIENT looking. hmmmm........ "I wonder what that button is for?" I wondered. I sat back at my desk and tried to work on a sudoku puzzle but it made my eyes hurt. I even pulled out yesterday's Pottery Barn catalog to keep me occupied. But, I kept thinking about that button. I was sure it used to be a way to call the office but I was also sure it didn't go to anything now- I mean it looked like 100 years old....and besides, why would we have walkie talkies if the button thingy worked?

Soooo, yes, I pushed the button. Nothing. And then a voice over that 100 year old speaker, "Emergency button..." Holy CRAP!! It scared the living day lights out of me. I slammed my back against the wall and stood there against it. I didn't recognize the voice. It didn't sound like the sec'y and I don't even know what the person said after the first two words because all I could hear was my heart pounding in my ears. Sooo I did what I always do and said nothing. I just stood there up against the wall like I was on a firing squad trying not to even breathe so the speaker thing didn't hear me. They said it again. SHIT! I couldn't figure out who was the person answering the ancient button!!

Then I hear all this ruckus coming up the steps and down the hall and I was a bit relieved thinking some kids were goofing around and I could get involved with that and forget about the voice out of the ancient speaker. OH noo.....it was the principal, 2 security guards and the sec'y from adult ed. The "voice" was now saying, "EMERGENCY ROOM 305 - lock doors". HOLY SHIT! They came in looked around the room, asked what was wrong because I guess I had this scared shitless look on my face and if someone just left, etc. And all I could say was......"I just wanted to push the button." Silence. Then I started in that I was just bored and I always wondered what that button was for and I didn't think it actually went to anything. The sec'y guard (Sam) asked why I didn't answer Sue. I said, "That was SUE? I didn't know who it was and I got scared.I promise if I'd known it was Sue I would have answered. I'm sorry!"

Everyone thinks it's hilarious. The principal tells me I'm worse than his 6 year old. They laugh and leave and pretty soon Sue tells everyone it's "all clear Mrs. Tuggle was just testing the emergency button" and I could hear them laughing in the office. Then Sam came back in and put a piece of tape over the button that said " do not touch". When I was leaving the principal said, "Hey, the red buttons are for the fire alarm and they work too." (Everyone's a comedian!)

I still don't understand why we carry walkie talkies with us if the all call/emergency buttons in the rooms work??