I can only express puzzlement boardering on alarm...

Before I get started I would like to affirm that anything said in this post might be made up and is not valid evidence in a court of law.

On to business.

So the first board meeting I had to attend was held this morning, for details on what that's all about see the previous post. My first challenge of the day was to actually find the "board room" of which they spoke. That did not go well...

Okay, so at the first general meeting I was led to believe that these meetings of the high council would be taking place in the pub located near the office. Mind you its not a pub now, but it still has the same decor so that's what I'm going to call it. The meeting wasn't supposed to start until 10:30 but I had heard rumors of a free breakfast for those that arrived early so I ended up heading down there at around 10:10 for some free food.

Curses! I get there and the door is locked. Now, your dashing narrator is not the type to give up just because a door is locked, not when there's free breakfast to be had. The pub is part of a larger building and I figure I'll just keep walking through unlocked doors I find until I get where I'm going.

So I go through the next door I find and down some stairs, in hopes of matching my elevation with that of my destination. I noticed as I was walking down there and along the subsequent hallway that this particular area seemed pretty deserted, but I had places to be. Finally I got to a big wooden door like the ones they have in the pub, and I knew I was there. I yanked 'er open and headed on in.

Curses twice! The whole damn room is dark, not pitch black but obviously not set for a meeting either. Worst of all, there's no free breakfast in sight. Did I say worst...?

Curses thrice! As I'm standing there the pub's alarm system springs into action and starts proving to the world it's still worth a damn. I turned around and read on the door I just came through the word "alarm" preceded by the phrase "emergency exit" and immediatly followed by "will sound." Implicit were the words "you idiot" though I failed to locate them in visible form.

Not wanting to go back through that same door (trick me once shame on you, etc.) I calmly walk out the front door trying my best to look like I'm of the opinion that alarms go off all the time and I am in no way connected to this one's timely occurence, never you mind that I'm exiting the locked building from which it is sounding.

At this point I decided to go up and check the offices since there might be a board room there, and I turned out to be right. At 10:25 I found myself in the meeting room, eating my breakfast of a danish, a banana and some juice.

I don't know what happened to the alarm but it had stopped by the time the meeting was out and I came back to post this...

Oh, also "Click" is a great movie. Just FYI.