Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Who the heck am I? Noah?

Alright, so i'm just minding my own business carrying my backpack full of techno-goodies. I arrive on the ground floor with intentions of passing right by my usual stop-n-chat location. "The Wing Master" they roast chicken and sell it to the starving public, trying to pass it off for healthy... Anyhow as I get closer I notice the frantic Asian lady I usually speak with, she's standing in a pool of moving water. Looking as frantic as she usually does I extend my greetings to her and ask her why the heck she is standing in the middle of a flood in the middle of a hospital hallway. She states the obvious to me, "There is some flood, from the drain in our store..." I answer "Well have you called anyone?" she says, "NO!, I don't know what to do!!!" so I rush over to another food kiosk and ask them to call security. I've worked in a hospital for several years and in a college for seven more so I know the usual procedure when this stuff happens. Gather up some wet signs, well there is a lazy and I mean "Lazy" with a capital L cleaner who usually saunters around doing nothing. I ask him to get some wet signs for the flood. He tells me he does not know where to look.. WOW! ok well I walk over to the stairwell door which people are coming out of periodically to be surprised by a whopping flood on the floor. "Please use the other stairwell exit, there's been a flood!" I find myself redirecting people until help arrives.... 10 or 15 minutes later a security guard arrives and I can finally leave my post.

How do I get myself into these kinds of messes in the first place... Ahhh well, We all have to make choices I guess. Some would choose to ignorantly walk through the water pretending that there is absolutely nothing wrong. I on the other hand had visions of people rushing out of the stairwell and bodies of unsuspecting patients strewn all over the floor... hahahaha

So all in all, I bought myself some chicken shawarma at a kiosk in the MaRS building then returned to sit and watch the remainder of the flood action from about 40 feet away... Happily munching on my food I watched the security guards as they put up some caution tape and politely asked people to redirect their travels...

A fun day indeed... I hope tommorow will be twice as exciting!

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