Topic: TWENTY-FOUR HOURS TO SAMI (Read 7425 times)

vixmom · « **Reply #150 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:16:12 PM »

Which came not from my fellow workers

vixmom · « **Reply #151 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:16:21 PM »

Or myself for that matter

vixmom · « **Reply #152 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:16:56 PM »

The sound turned out to be the fire alarm

vixmom · « **Reply #153 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:17:42 PM »

The combination of the lights and the noise were very effective at persuading a quick evacuation

vixmom · « **Reply #154 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:18:35 PM »

So I told Vixdad I would call him back, grabbed my purse and headed for the door with the rest of my fellow employees

vixmom · « **Reply #155 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:19:07 PM »

Half of them were grumbling about being too busy for a stupid fire drill

vixmom · « **Reply #156 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:19:34 PM »

The other half were rejoicing at a chance to go out in the beautiful sunshiny day

Jennifer · « **Reply #157 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:19:51 PM »

Happy Earth Day! And Happy Birthday to Sandra!

vixmom · « **Reply #158 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:20:32 PM »

The we reached exited out office and entered the common hallway which was filling up with employees from the other offices in our four story office building

vixmom · « **Reply #159 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:20:53 PM »

Also with the acrid smell of smoke

vixmom · « **Reply #160 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:21:48 PM »

Suddenly the complaints stopped and everyone quickly and efficiently headed for the staircases
(there are two on each floor)

vixmom · « **Reply #161 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:22:06 PM »

And we all exited into the parking lot

vixmom · « **Reply #162 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:22:53 PM »

Where we saw

vixmom · « **Reply #163 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:24:23 PM »

As the different office staffs began mingling and speculating on what was happening we learned that there was a young man , 19 or 20, who was stuck in an elevator between the third and fourth floors

vixmom · « **Reply #164 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:25:19 PM »

He was on a cell phone talking to one if his fellow workers and was panicked

vixmom · « **Reply #165 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:25:45 PM »

Because the smoke was in the elevator shaft

vixmom · « **Reply #166 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:26:16 PM »

Several firefighters and police officers rushed into the building

vixmom · « **Reply #167 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:28:23 PM »

Meanwhile this was happening

bk · « **Reply #168 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:28:29 PM »

Watched Dead Ringers, the correct version. It's really something else - not a wasted moment, an Oscar-worthy performance by Jeremy Irons, and in the end, intensely moving, something the rank new version doesn't even approach. And we don't get multiple shots of women sitting on a toilet, which along with vomit scenes seems to be part of the template of women writers. To which I say, take a long walk off a short pier, you talentless hacks.

bk · « **Reply #169 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:28:36 PM »

That was strong.

bk · « **Reply #170 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:28:51 PM »

Deciding what to watch next.

vixmom · « **Reply #171 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:30:06 PM »

And this

Ginny · « **Reply #172 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:30:51 PM »

Saturday evening greetings!

I seem to have arrived just in time for DR Vixmom's suspenseful story...

vixmom · « **Reply #173 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:31:25 PM »

After about 30 or 40 minutes, which must have seemed a lifetime to that young man, he was escorted out if the building by a couple of police to great cheers and applause

vixmom · « **Reply #174 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:32:55 PM »

He was soon surrounded by a group of his coworkers all hugging him and making much of him.

vixmom · « **Reply #175 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:33:47 PM »

It took another 30 minutes or so before we were given the all clear to return into the building

vixmom · « **Reply #176 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:37:51 PM »

The scuttlebutt was that an elevator motor had seized and that what was smoking but that there was never any actual fire

vixmom · « **Reply #177 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:39:18 PM »

However for the next 45 minutes or so the lights kept flashing , making the office seem somewhat like a strobe lit 1980’s dance club

vixmom · « **Reply #178 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:40:23 PM »

And periodically an ear piercing shriek would be emitted from the speakers in the ceiling

vixmom · « **Reply #179 on:** April 22, 2023, 05:40:59 PM »

Finally at 4 pm the boss said, “This is ridiculous, everyone go home”

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