Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Fire Safety

The following is a conversation that took place between me and the woman pictured below at work recently. I have added a few illustrations to help you picture the situation more vividly:


Woman: (Meekly) Hi, I have a question

Me: Yes?

Woman: Did you know that there's a fire extinguisher downstairs behind a locked door that needs a key to be opened

Me: No I did not

Woman: What if a student is playing with matches, drops one down his shirt, catches on fire, and can't get to the fire extinguisher?







Me: I don't know. That would be pretty bad.


Woman: Are you the person I can talk to about fixing this?


Me: No. You should probably talk to the people downstairs about it.


Woman: Okay. It's behind a door that says 'fire extinguisher' but it's locked and you can't open it without a key.

Me: I'm sorry. Fire Extinguisher maintenance is not my job. You should bring this up to the people downstairs.

Woman: Okay, thank you.