Miss Information is annoyed by an evacuation drill
Miss Information is currently living in a retirement/seniors residence. She is neither retired nor a senior and yet here she is.
She was really excited about the annual evacuation drill. It sounded fun. To be honest, anything out of the ordinary is fun around here. At breakfast staff came around and suggested that the residents just stay in the dining room (aka the evacuation muster point) until the drill was finished. Miss Information figured that defeated the purpose of the drill and was considerably less fun but whatever.
A few minutes later things got exciting again. Miss Information's room was going to be the fictional source of the fictional fire! She was told to go back to her room and wait to be rescued.
Cool. She has laundry to fold. She is happily matching socks when the residence maintence guy came in with a cool can of smoke and sets off her smoke detector.
There was a PA announcement asking all residents to evacuate to the dining room.
Miss Information: Hey, maintenance guy? Should I leave?
Maintence Guy: No. You have to wait to be rescued!
Mss Information would like to clarify that she is ambulatory-ish. She can zip around the facility like a pro but she does enjoy dramatic role play so what the hell, she'll wait to be rescued.
Outside in the corridor, there is chaos. Staff seems to be arguing about who is checking which room. Clearly no one is considering rescuing Miss Information.
Maintenace Guy sighs deeply, "You should probably just go".
Miss Information heads to the dining room but damn...the fire doors between her room and the dining room are now closed. It seems logical that staff would be posted to open the doors for people evacuating who, like Miss Information, have trouble opening doors and steering their wheelchairs simultaneously, but no. There is no one. Won't anyone rescue Miss Information from the fictional fire? She manages to hold the door open with her foot while she steers through it.
She has no quibble with keeping the fire doors closed but questions the wisdom of trapping elderly people in a section of the building that is on fictional fire.
Miss Information makes it to the dining room where staff are pleased with a successful evacuation. Miss information just nods and checks the real estate listings. She might just need to rescue herself.
