Earthquake Drill

I found myself listening to one of the craziest things someone would do. I was happily seated in the company of high school friends and it has been sometime since the five of us got together over dinner. We were recalling the funniest moments we had back in St. Jude when Delwyn said that I did something hilarious right in the midst of an earthquake drill. Me? What? Earthquake drill? I’m such an angel to even think of something devious to do. I couldn’t quite remember whatever this thing was that I did but I had a feeling I probably did. Here was Delwyn’s recollection of that eventful day.

Back in 2nd year high school, we had an earthquake drill and all the students from the old building had to evacuate to the new building. So you can just imagine students supposedly storming out of their classrooms seeking safety. But no. It didn’t exactly happen that way. When the head teacher signaled the start of the earthquake drill, the students leisurely walked out of the classrooms. There was no sense of urgency at all. Nobody took the exercise seriously. Ms. Dulce, our PE teacher dressed us down and hollered that if it were a real earthquake, we could have died right there and then. Ok ok. Point taken. To cut the long story short, we had to go through another drill and this time with feelings. Now, brace yourself for what I supposedly did. Well according to Delwyn, I was one of the first people to storm out of the classroom screaming at the top of my lungs running like crazy. I go “Really? Ginawa ko ba yun?! Wala akong maalala.” Hmm, I did some recalling and I think I did.

I think it’s very likely of me to do something like this. I agree. This was I.