I’ll be the first to admit that I’m no stranger to stupid things. While I consider myself a somewhat intelligent person, I just do stupid things from time to time. These things range from cutting my own hair to filming myself singing along to Biz Markie’s “Just a Friend.” (That’s a story for another day.) Today’s event is just the next in what will probably be a long line of stupid things.

stairsAs you may know, I work on the 17th floor of an office building. When it comes time to take my lunch break, I head downstairs to the concourse level to eat and read a book. Today towards the end of my break, the fire alarm was going off. This didn’t directly effect me as it was going off on the 10th floor. As a result of the alarm though, the elevators were shut off. I finished up my chapter and I was ready to go back upstairs. I walked to the elevators and saw a bunch of people standing around waiting. So it was then and there that I decided that I’d just walk up the stairs. How bad could 17 flights be?

Well, first off, it wasn’t 17 flights. It was more than that. I started in the lobby level which is like floor number zero so I had to walk up one flight just to get to the first floor. I also found out that there’s two mechanical floors somewhere between the 7th and 9th floors so that’s two extra. That was about the time that I realized that this was a horrible idea. I persevered though. I just kept going. The floors counted off as I continued my march up. More >