Just got to the till and loaded up my week's worth on to the conveyor belt. Potatoes and carrots got through just before the screaming fire alarm. Evacuate the supermarket. All transactions frozen. Tills locked and out we all trooped leaving our defrosting vegetables all over the shop!
Outside it bacame one of those mini-crisis situations where the normally reserved British public start talking for once and slightly infirm people are offered wheelchairs.
The talk quickly developed into a humerous consideration of the worst situation to be in when this happens in a supermarket. The loo? The last item on the conveyor belt? The changing room? No I think I agree with the man who suggested just sitting down to eat your all-day breakfast and getting the first mouthful of bacon and egg near your drooling lips!
Ten minutes later we were ushered back in. Normal service resumed as quickly as possible and nobody spoke to eachother again.
I was supply teaching once, and was sitting in the loo at lunchtime when the fire alarm went off! That was BAD
ReplyDeleteBut Bob was in the shower at the sports centre when there was a fire. A [female] staff member ushered them all out [clutching towels] on to the carpark [alongside a busy road] That was WORSE!!