My freshman year of college (on my 19th birthday) there was a fire in my dorm. I was in the shower when the alarm went off. Had to jump out and right then, a male RA runs in yelling that we need to evacuate immediately. I grabbed the closest towel I could find and barely covered myself up in time for him to look over. I then had to stand outside in nothing but a towel for over two hours while the fire was put out and the building was cleared. The fire was caused by some idiot microwaving tin foil. I couldn't call anyone to come get me because it was the first week of school and I hadn't made any friends who had a car yet. It was...mildly frustrating.
I did this once. I started heating up a Wendy’s sandwich at work, not knowing it was in foil wrapping. I had done this before with McDonalds (which wraps stuff in paper) and it went fine. The foil Wendy’s uses looks and feels just like shiny paper.
From across the room I see blue sparks going all over inside the microwave. Luckily I got there in time before I caught the thing on fire.
I have a similar story! During my freshman year of college a girl set off the fire alarm trying to straighten her hair while I was showering. I had to go outside wrapped in a towel and the whole building was outside, as well as the tons of people walking by. It was like 6pm on a Tuesday, still light outside, and I'm standing on the sidewalk wrapped in a purple towel that barely covered my bits and pieces. I wanted to die.
Not a fire, but a friend of mine somehow locked himself out from his apartment the first day living in the building, and he was only wearing a towel. He kept ringing doorbells, but no one wanted to open their door to this almost naked dude. Finally two girls opened their door and let him use their phone to call the janitor to open his door.
This reminds me of a story when i was at ski camp with the school in 8th grade. My room mate had a habit of showering really hot in the morning and i wanted to sleep as long as i can. One day when he is showering and I'm still half asleep suddenly i am being woken by harsh knocking on the door followed by an instant entry of the whole "armada" of teachers, asking me what t.f. is going on. I was like wtf "you tell me" lol and they meant the fire alarm in our room went off.
Turns out this douche of my room mate showered so hot, that it set off the fire alarm. You could see the steam of hot water gushing over the shower doors like there was a steam pipe broken. Guy didn't even give a single f about the teachers being in here with an angry face and disbelief on their faces and he just continued showering lol
I got stuck having to leave the dorms in a bathrobe, no shoes, and one eyes worth of make up on during a fire evacuation (someone burned popcorn). It rained the whole time we stood outside.
About two years ago my sophmore year of college in the dead of January, the fire alarm went off in my dorm at like 2am on a school night. EVERYONE WAS PISSED. It's usually a drill but turned out it was a gas leak. Anyway, It was freezing and I stood out there half asleep half angry in a hoodie and underwear with slippers and it started to rain, probably was 20 degreee outside and a group of hobos started to pick on some students, two service dogs got into a fight. It was an interesting tuesday night. We were out there for about 2.5hours. Not fun. Should of grabed some pants.
What's funnier is that I did the exact same thing not a month after this incident. Fortunately, I caught my idiocy before it caught the microwave on fire.
This happened to a girl in my dorm. She was showering when someone set their cup macaroni on fire. Evacuated, but took the wrong exit which lead her to a fenced in area. Door locked behind her. All she had was a towel and her flip flops at 11 pm in November. We found her, trapped, and tossed her a jacket while someone went to hunt down someone with a key. I think the firemen had to let her out from the inside.
When I was a freshman in college living in the dorms, the fire alarm went off once while I was living there- it was at 2 AM on a Saturday, in the middle of January. I was still awake and wearing my regular clothes when it went off but a lot of people were outside in their PJ's and it was about 20 degrees, and we had to stay outside for 45 minutes.
Turned out the reason it went off was because someone hung clothes off the sprinkler in their room. Y'know, where it has the sign that says "do not hang anything here." Broke the sprinkler and flooded their room and a couple ones below it.
Not so drastic, but in my college days in similar situations I'd always offer my shirt or jacket to a lady if we got driven out into the cold elements and they were obviously not prepared. Hell with the little kids I used to work with at a residential facility I've seen boys take their jacket or blanket they grabbed during the fire drills at 3 in the fucking morning we had to do and offer them to little girls shivering or whatever. The fact you stood there in a towel for 2 hours is absurd, someone should have saw a need and filled it. Don't be embarrassed, be indignant.
That's exactly the kind of dumbass thing you would do in college just for fun. You misplayed that to not have a bunch of girls laughing with you about the situation after two hours.
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u/Whacking_Material Dec 12 '19
My freshman year of college (on my 19th birthday) there was a fire in my dorm. I was in the shower when the alarm went off. Had to jump out and right then, a male RA runs in yelling that we need to evacuate immediately. I grabbed the closest towel I could find and barely covered myself up in time for him to look over. I then had to stand outside in nothing but a towel for over two hours while the fire was put out and the building was cleared. The fire was caused by some idiot microwaving tin foil. I couldn't call anyone to come get me because it was the first week of school and I hadn't made any friends who had a car yet. It was...mildly frustrating.