You Think YOU Had a Bad Day!

I ran across a hysterical blog this week: Fail Blog. Photo after photo, documenting people’s mistakes, both small and monumental.

Yesterday, I was in a high school gymnasium, and I happened to look at the exit doors. They were marked with the lighted-for-emergencies “Exit” sign and had that kind of bar you push to open the door. It’s designed so that you can lock people out, but no one can ever be trapped inside.

The gym was fairly crowded — several hundred people. But the doors were barred shut. They couldn’t open. And in case you didn’t believe the stout, iron bar, the handles were also chained and padlocked. I guess the administration is more concerned about students trying to escape than hundreds of people potentially trapped in a burning building.

I was going to take a picture of it and submit it to the Fail Blog as an “Emergency Exit FAIL!” Lucky for the high school though, I forgot to take the picture.

Thanks to Paul Gillin for pointing me toward the Fail Blog. His latest newsletter also has a great test to determine how successful your blogging is.