"Two" much for one day

In my previous post I narrated the first adventure of the day. One could think that it was enough to shatter the confidence one had put in a building and never to trust it again. In fact as Terranie(my Spanish friend; her name comes from Teresa, Annie and Daniel, her closest realtives) and I scurried back to lab in the afternoon, we were anxiously looking all around and above us for any signs of falling glass or loose panels.

Now a little more about the Biodesign building. It consists of four buildings integrated into one structure. Of them, two are yet to be built. One is completed and is fully functional and that is where I work. The other building is ready but has not been occupied as yet.

So, as I mentioned, the staircase was sealed and disfuntional so we decided to take the elevator, which, mind you, is something that we never do. It was here that the second starnge thing of the day happened. We swiped or identity cards and tried to press the button which said L1(basement1) but the command did not seem to register. Feeling rather frustrated, Terranie swiped her card again and pressed a wrong button by mistake. It said L1R which essentially means another basement. But as far as we knew, there was only one basement in the entire building! The stubborn elevator, which seemed to have a mind of its own, took the command and zoomed down leaving us helpless and a bit worried. Then, much to our surprise, a panel at the back of the elevator slided open and revealed to us an entirely new floor which we hadnt even heard of before. Through the open door sailed in the grating noise of heavy machinery and husky voices of who seemed like pretty ill-tempered men. It might have been the talk in the air about certain hush-hush areas in the building where animal testing is carried out or it might have been the nerve-racking incident of the morning......whatever be the reason..........we were terrified. Frantically, we ran out in a direction away from where the voices were coming. And we ran right into a labyrinth of corridoors. There were tens of doors and what seemed like infinite corridoors. They were all empty and not a soul was there who we could ask for the nearest staircase.

After wandering around for what seemed like ages in the maze, there appeared in front of us, the welcome signboard saying "stairs". We shouted out in glee and ran for it and didnt stop running until we reached the safe and secure shelter of our very own lab! We narrated our plight to all the sympathetic listerners in the lab and they all unanimously agreed that we had shown an exceptional display of bravery and presence of mind and we deserve a medal for it!!!!!!!!! :D

Ah well............all well that ends well!!!!!!!!!!!!!