Pemps wrote:
Have you never seen the episode of 'the office' when they have a fire drill? 
Off at a tangent rambling story time:
The year I went off to Uni I got a job working in the Infirmary doing a mixture of portering and theatre assistant type stuff. There's a really old separate building called Christopher Home where they do the eye operations and I was based there with this 60 od year old fella with the shakes called Bert. Anyway, there wasn't much to do - fetch a patient from their bed about once an hour to take them up for an operation and just sit around outside the theatre waiting. Until the fire alarm went off one day and it was left to us and a couple of nurses to evacuate two 8 bed wards full of pensioners.
Most got into chairs and were pushed out but one or two it was quicker just to take the brakes off their beds and push them outside. Anyway after a bit we got the bleep that it was safe to move them back in and so got them in and retired to our little attic room for a smoke feeling pleased with ourselves. After we'd been up there about 20 minutes we heard this faint little voice going 'Hello? Hello?' We ignored it for a bit but eventually got up on the window ledge to look down. We'd pushed an old dear with both eyes bandaged up round the corner of the building still in her bed and forgotten her when we wheeled everyone back in
We were like shit off a shovel down the stairs and got there just before the surgeon who'd heard her as well
I gave her a good excuse about waiting 30 mins for the all clear...
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