At 5:00pm every single Friday, I jump off my seat with a heart attack caused by the loud and obnoxious sound of the “siren”. I say “siren”, but it’s more like the sound of a tooth being drilled by a dentist amplified to about 739 billion decibels, in one second intervals, for about 10 seconds. And it precedes the following very well thought of message:

This is a test of our emergency notification system. In case of a real emergency, this will be followed by the announcement of the nature of the emergency and evacuation instructions. If you cannot hear this message clearly, please contact the security desk at 1234. Again, if you cannot hear this message clearly, please contact the security desk at 1234. Thank you.

Uhh.. yeah, I wonder which genius wrote this brilliant message? Because if you repeat what people should do when they can’t hear the message, people can just get the messages somehow! So yeah, from now on, if you people have trouble getting to this blog or leaving comments on this blog, please notify me in your comments, OK?