number 2 (no, not the dirty duty)

Sitka High had its second bomb threat this week. Students were just beginning to arrive and were sitting around in the commons when the fire alarms went off! Everyone evacuated to the parking lot (including the poor basketball players in the shorts/tanks). Most of us just thought that someone had pulled the fire alarm, but it was soon announced that we had received another bomb threat (at 8:35 am) and so had Blatchley. The plan was for us to hop on buses to the Centennial Building. Well, the shivering, lightly-clothed, ballers got on the first bus to the Centennial while the rest of us just stood around shivering in the snowy, cold weather.
Then, I had the novel idea that since school hadn't even started yet, I should just walk away! "Yay!" you might say while clapping your hands together. But no. -As I began walking out of the parking lot, a very disgruntled Senora Riggs walked in my path and said, "Where do you think you're going!?" Again, I was with Coral Pendall (we were on the way to her car which was around the back). Riggs told us that we could NOT leave, even though school hadn't started and we were freezing in the middle of a hazardous parking lot. Under most circumstances, I would not have let an ex-porn star stop me, but I didn't have my car.
So we herded back together with the rest of the sheep.
Then I saw my comrade, Kaari, pull in with her Toyota Rav. She drove up to us and motioned for us to load up, so we did. She told us that Mrs. Seesz said she could just go home and come back when it was all over. Now you might be on the edge of your seat, biting your lip, thinking, "Yes! Finally!" But no. As we began to drive out of the potentially dangerous parking lot, Mrs. Will came running out in front of our vehicle, flailing her arms. She made us stop and roll down the window, "Where do you think you're going?" she inquired.
"Outta here! We don't want to die!" Kaari confidently said.
And then we sped off to the Backdoor where we had yummy hot cocoa and chai (for Bryanna).
NOT. Instead, Kaari cowered down to the teacher she idolizes and said, "No where Mrs. Will. I'll go back and park over there."
We turned around and sat in the perilous lot. Within minutes, school officials were herding students into the gym where they were "pretty confident" that it was safe.
We sat there for 10 minutes while the teachers checked their classrooms. Mr. Bekeris sarcastically said, "I'm risking my life for you kids! Goodbye!"
While we waited, many of us phoned our friends and warned them not to come to school. However, Mr. Hawk got on the microphone and said, "Do not use your cell phones. They may activate SOMETHING." -Everyone laughed. Its funny how cell phones are blamed for everything now: plane crashes, gas stations exploding, cancer, and now bombs being activated?
The teachers were done searching their classrooms and back in no more than 10 minutes. Everyone went back to class.
Way to go Sitka High and Sitka Police Dept., you did it again. A highly professional bomb threat procedure.