You Know, The Funniest Thing Happened Today...

And it really is kinda funny too. I know you hear that a lot, but bear with me a sec. You'll love this. Its sooooo good its got to be fattening!

Now keep in mind that this is a rather cramped hallway that intersects 3 classrooms and 3 instructor rooms. Only one instructor was around at the moment.

Okay, I show up 15 minutes early for class, sit my books down and walk around for a second. I step back over to the classroom door and try to open it. Crap, it's locked. I fume for a second and decided to chew a piece of gum while I wait. I reach into my pocket, pull out the pack and ***bweew*** everything goes black.

CRAP!!!

Apparently not paying attention my elbow had bumped the master shutoff switch for power in our part of the building. The one instructor in his room at the moment comes out... kind of laughing.

"You hit it, didn't you?"

"..."

"Thought so. C'mon, let's find comeone with a key."

Now, neither of us knows why they have the breakers for that switch in a completely different part of the building or why the thing is still even up to begin with. So we go ask around and finally find someone with a key to the room where the box is (the gentleman who just so happens to be the instructor for the 5 o'clock class I was waiting to start), but he didn't have a key to the fence around it. We found an instructor in the automotive department with a key to fence to let us in.

The room is a scary sight and hums like you wouldn't believe. We find a big honkin' fuse box with breakers and whatnot the size of my fist and look around. We find one breaker that looks like it may have been tripped, so we try to raise another faculty member familiat with the electrics to confirm we're looking at the right breaker, and not something left off to prevent the building from catching fire or something. While the instructor who found me in the hall when the lights went out makes a call, I stepped outside with my teacher and he started smoking while talking about this being another thing in the already bad day he was having.

Keep in mind two things. My teacher had just lit one up. Its also about 15 minutes after class was supposed to start.

The instructor on the phone comes out and reminds us of this. My teacher rubs his cigarette out on the ground and runs off to make sure nobody leaves and to remind everyone that class is, in fact, still on. The other instructor gets confirmation that we're looking at the right breaker, resets it, and I run on ahead and made sure that everything was working. Yep, as I stepped back into the building and the computer labs were rebooting themselves.

So for those of you who were having a bad day, I hope this at least made it a little better.

After all, if we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at?
(I'm tired of laughing at Bush!)