"Small versions of adults, honey."

[dannysgirlsg1]

Okie donkie, I realized I needed to post about this before I ended up forgetting... because wow, it's another moment of BRILLIANCE on the part of the Kellum RAs (not all of them are bad, of course, but there are some that are like WOW...)


Monday night, while I was futzing around on neopets (it's the best place to play games, if you ask me! Nothing can top Meerca Chase!), the fire alarm went off. It was the fifth time the alarm has gone off in the past month - of course this is always a nuisance, especially if you live on the 10th frelling floor *and i chose this floor again, why??*. So I had a nice loud curse and flocked downstairs like everyone else. The general assumption was some dumbass guy was trying to cook again, and didn't have one clue as to what he was doing (this has been the case all the times before - one of the times being MY friends on MY floor trying to make hashbrowns).


While we were all standing outside (and it wasn't exactly warm), I overheard a girl saying she'd seen water coming from under her RAs door as she'd been coming outside. Then not long after I heard her say that, the police officer that had come when the alarm went off called everybody from floors 5 and 6 to the front. Okie donkie - obviously this alarm wasn't some idiot trying to make food.


So on my way up the stairs back to the 10th floor (it's faster than getting on the elevator and stopping at EVERY floor), I decided I'd stop and see what happened on 6. I mean, it WAS on my way and everything. Everything that had happened was on the low side (to the right of the elevators)...


Turns out the RA for that side wasn't here, and had stupidly left her A/C on, turned all the way up to the highest setting. Well, Monday morning, Kellum being the AWESOME dorm that it is, turned the heat back on (see, when they turn the heat on, there is no cold air that comes out of the unit. Likewise when they have the cold on - it's either one or the other, which is why I keep my air off most of the time) even though it really wasn't THAT cold Monday. Anywho, since that RA's unit was on the highest setting, it ended up over heating and melting the sprinkler system in her room - which set the alarm off. And seeing as there is a convenient space beneath the room doors, the water flooded out of the room and into the hall and the other rooms on that end:



Sorry I don't have a better picture. I took this on my phone, and just as the camera went off, these people stepped in my way. And then the RAs came and said if we didn't live on the floor, we had to go. So this was the one and only picture I got - at least you can see the water completely covering the hall floor there.


What you can't see is there is a room right behind the guy in the black shirt - and these girls had a whole bunch of shit on their floor...which of course got wet.


All I can say is for once, it's not the 10th floor with problems, and that Kellum is the BEST DORM EVAR! *snirk*


P.S - What is up with this Post and Entry page?! Is anyone else having it look all wonko on you?? Nevermind, it's back to normal again... at least the edit page is. Nevermind again - the actual Post an Entry page is STILL wonko...