Fire Drill

Our building had a fire drill yesterday morning, it was great! First just sat around for a bit wondering if the noise was indeed a fire alarm, but then the macho fire alarm voice came on reporting that an emergency situation had been reported. So we all headed down the stairs (some wondering if we should even bother going), clearing out the 21 storey building. Actually just 20 storeys, cause there's no floor 13... ooooo scary 13. (hmm I wonder if China has no floor 4?) Anyways, milled about on the sidewalks across the street for a while, a big crowd, but not too big cause most people probably took the plus 15s out. Felt like we should have been carrying picket signs or something. (Anyone want to do that with me sometime, march around downtown with signs with no words on them!) After no emergency vehicles were showing up, we figured it was just a drill. They soon let us back in, but instead of waiting for tons of people to take the elevators, I headed for the stairs. A coworker joined me. We can't get out of the stairs at our floor (12), just the crossover floors 8 and 14. We get out at 8, and find there's a bunch more people from our office there too (but noone else)! They must have taken the other stairwell and ended up on that floor at the exact same time as us! It doesn't sound too special, but it felt really neat to me somehow that two independently moving intermap groups happened to rendez-vous on the 8th floor.