Today, I was at the doctor's office with my two boys. Our appointment was finished and I was completing some paperwork when all of a sudden, the building's fire alarm started ringing and lights were flashing.
It turns out one of the children in the waiting room pulled the alarm switch. The receptionist saw the whole thing. The ear-splitting noise made everyone in the waiting room uncomfortable and the nurses and receptionists scurried around, trying to contact the person with the right key to turn off the alarm. Meanwhile, the staff and patients in the surrounding offices who didn't know it was a false alarm were evacuating the building.
As I looked around to see who was responsible for the ruckus, I saw a woman holding a little boy. The poor woman... she looked like she had had a horrible day and this was just the incident to send her over the edge. It actually looked like she was crying and she kept apologizing to the people in the waiting room and to the staff.
Ugh! I felt bad for this poor woman and I tried to send her a "it happens to all of us" smile. At the same time, I must admit, I was also smiling because I was happy. Happy in the knowledge that, for once, it wasn't one of my kids who was the cause of such chaos.
I hope she's laughing about the whole crazy scene now. Sometimes, that's the only thing a mom can do.
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