Backdoorness
Aug. 9th, 2003 07:08 pm(This entry made protected so that counselors won't read it, in case what I did breaks any rules.)
After dinner yesterday, I, as always, went back to Towers. I swiped my ID and entered, as always. The problem occurred the *next* time I tried to do this.
We had decided that we had best go down to the mandatory fun for *some* short time, and Charlie got the idea of taking an "alternate entrance". I didn't know what he meant at the time.
You see, in the very back of the basement, there is an emergency exit. Sort of. It is a two-part emergency exit; you go through one door, which sets off an alarm; behind it there is a dark staircase (well, it's not so dark when the lights are on), leading to the actual door to the outside. This door triggers no alarms at all.
The thing is that the first door is left permanently open.
Of course, being an emergency exit, it is impossible to enter this way unless there is someone to hold the door for you. Charlie apparently failed to realize this, and so we went back inside to enter the normal way.
As you may have guessed, I didn't have my ID.
The guard decided to let me in anyway, at which point I immediately began looking for it. I had been to Franklin, the computer lab, and downstairs at Mandatory Fun (I forget why we were going down there *again*), and I searched all of them for my ID. I didn't find it. I shrugged (well, I don't know that I *actually* shrugged, but YKWIM) and went down anyway.
Later, I left by the "back door".
It didn't occur to me until a few moments later - just after Charlie had come out after me and the door was already closed - that I still didn't have my ID.
I wasn't going to enter by the front again; to try to enter without an ID a *second* time, especially after appearing not to have left even once, would be suspicious. Charlie agreed, strangely enough, to go in and search for my ID. After not finding it, he asked whether I had checked at the desk of the computer lab - say someone had seen it there, and given it to the person. After a bit of head-hitting, I said no. Charlie then agreed to open the "back door" for me. He took quite a while to do so. In the meantime, I paced back and forth, hoping we wouldn't get into trouble with the maintenance workers or the policeman who I was in plain sight of. When he finally arrived, he noted that he had to make quite a few excuses. He went down first, telling me to wait 2 minutes before re-entering. I doubt that this was actually in any way necessary, but I did so.
However, my ID was not at the desk of the computer lab.
I gave up about then. My ID was eventually found by Li-Mei in Franklin Lounge.
-Sniffnoy
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"If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure."
-Dan Quayle
After dinner yesterday, I, as always, went back to Towers. I swiped my ID and entered, as always. The problem occurred the *next* time I tried to do this.
We had decided that we had best go down to the mandatory fun for *some* short time, and Charlie got the idea of taking an "alternate entrance". I didn't know what he meant at the time.
You see, in the very back of the basement, there is an emergency exit. Sort of. It is a two-part emergency exit; you go through one door, which sets off an alarm; behind it there is a dark staircase (well, it's not so dark when the lights are on), leading to the actual door to the outside. This door triggers no alarms at all.
The thing is that the first door is left permanently open.
Of course, being an emergency exit, it is impossible to enter this way unless there is someone to hold the door for you. Charlie apparently failed to realize this, and so we went back inside to enter the normal way.
As you may have guessed, I didn't have my ID.
The guard decided to let me in anyway, at which point I immediately began looking for it. I had been to Franklin, the computer lab, and downstairs at Mandatory Fun (I forget why we were going down there *again*), and I searched all of them for my ID. I didn't find it. I shrugged (well, I don't know that I *actually* shrugged, but YKWIM) and went down anyway.
Later, I left by the "back door".
It didn't occur to me until a few moments later - just after Charlie had come out after me and the door was already closed - that I still didn't have my ID.
I wasn't going to enter by the front again; to try to enter without an ID a *second* time, especially after appearing not to have left even once, would be suspicious. Charlie agreed, strangely enough, to go in and search for my ID. After not finding it, he asked whether I had checked at the desk of the computer lab - say someone had seen it there, and given it to the person. After a bit of head-hitting, I said no. Charlie then agreed to open the "back door" for me. He took quite a while to do so. In the meantime, I paced back and forth, hoping we wouldn't get into trouble with the maintenance workers or the policeman who I was in plain sight of. When he finally arrived, he noted that he had to make quite a few excuses. He went down first, telling me to wait 2 minutes before re-entering. I doubt that this was actually in any way necessary, but I did so.
However, my ID was not at the desk of the computer lab.
I gave up about then. My ID was eventually found by Li-Mei in Franklin Lounge.
-Sniffnoy
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"If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure."
-Dan Quayle
