Emergency Exit Only

Location: BYU Wilkinson's center
Time: Lunch time --approx 1:40pm
Occurance: complete and utter surprise and inside laughter

I tried to avoid it, but, I had to. I bought lunch. Five dollars worth spent on a spinach wrap with my wheat role--there is so much to do today and I am excited about the movie I will be watching later on campus Babes in Toyland. I don't even care that I will go alone, that's how excited I am.

I chose a table where to sit to enjoy my buy in the food court area on campus-- somewhat close to the window and layed all my stuff out( which is basically my backpack, little notebook). Once I found my location I tried to behave myslef: to eat as appropriate as i could-- you know, the whole whipping my face with a napkin and such, in case anyone looked my way...i wouldn't compeletly revolt them with my poppyseed dressing dripping along my face (classy, right?).

I looked ahead of me and there was this dark-haired guy sitting and smiling @ his laptop. I assumed he was video chatting with someone since his laptop was faced toward the wall when normally the seat was the placed in the opposite direction that he had it. That the detective side of me observing.

I also saw another guy, head phones on--enthralled in what was flashing across his laptop screen. He was sitting by a pair of doors that across them reads in big red and black letters: Emergency Exit Only. Taking bites out of my green wrap kept me busy, and I looked away.  That distracted me, along with doing the math of how much money I would be making a month for the summer if I were to stay in Utah, deducting rent, food,and seeing my not-so-great profit.

Video camera guy packed up his things and walked by me on his way to the exit, then he came back...(perhaps he did not find the exit?) and started walking towards the laptop-headphones guy....you know, the one sitting by the emergency exit.

 Video camera guy walked through those doors...the ones that you always think.are the perfect exit until you are 3 feet away and can see the writing that only if the whole building is on fire and if you have three people on your back and if you are holding a small baby then it's okay to go through them. When video camera guy was going for the exit...I just looked at him with a look of concern as did the laptop-headphones guy. Laptop-headphones guy even looked up towards the top of the doors and ceiling since he was facing the doors and was only 2 feet away from them max. He expected an alarm to go off--as did I.


Flabergasting.

A got over it. Until laptop-headphones guy packed up too and tried going out the emergency exit doors. He pushed against them with his "manly" force just to be reprocushioned back. The look on his face of strain and rejection was obvious. He walked away defeated and exited out of the doors all of us  normal law-abiding folk do since we can read "Emergency Exit Only".

I chuckled. Maybe laptop-headphones guy didn't have a legit emergency as did the emergency exit forces denied him and not video camera guy. I hope to be worthy to pass someday.