A bit of explaining to start things.
The front door of our building (the one on the street) is an exit only door. The main door everyone uses is at the side of the building. We have a small car park, so normally staff park in the car park at the end of the road. Not far, except when it’s raining, which it was tonight. Sarah was parked in the work car park; Eloise, Jenny and I were parked at the end of the road.
Four of us left work at the same time tonight. Sarah only works part time and isn’t comfortable putting on the alarm. Jenny said she would turn on the alarm and lock the door behind Sarah, and then she, Eloise and I would run down the hall to the front door. Save a bit of walking in the rain. Eloise and I went down the hall and left Sarah and Jenny to do the door. We opened the door and waited for Jenny. She dashed down the hall, and by the time she got to us, the alarm was screaming. Jenny raced out the door, and without stopping, turned around and started to run back the way she came. A running UTurn !! It was great to watch. She didn’t even miss a stride.
At the same time as she did her turn around, Eloise remembered that there was a keypad right next to where we were standing.
Eloise turned off the alarm, reset it and we locked up and went home.
Group D’OH!!
We all knew there was a keypad at that door. But we are all so used to using the other one, we forgot that the dash down the hall was totally unnecessary !!
We had a good laugh at ourselves. A laugh is a great way to finish just before an extra long weekend.
Madeleine
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
4 comments:
That is funny. So there wasn't any need for the dash at all. LOL Gave you all a good laugh anyway.
That didn't take you long. I've only just posted it. And no, there was absolutely no need for the dash. I just hope we got the alarm turned off in time before the security company was notified. The boss would have been most cross with us hehehe!!
lol!!
It was funny Kahless. I described it to someone the other day, just how Jenny didn't stop for an instance, but turned around and kept going.
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