Given people's reaction today, I apparently look ridiculous if my hair
isn't sticking straight up. Who would've guessed?
Today, the school administration executed the absolutely brilliant plan of holding a fire drill in the middle of a 25°F rainstorm. We weren't allowed to stand by in the parking lot and instead were forced onto the frozen front lawn, which made for a sort of Slip and Slide made of snow and ice. Due to policy instated back in 2006, we're no longer allowed to have jackets or sweatshirts on our person at any time during the school day, so the entire student body ended up getting soaked. (Imagine 1500 soaking-wet teenaged males crammed onto the front lawn, and you'll understand what's so bad about this.) Quite ironically, though, we were allowed to wear jackets
after the drill for the remaining hour of the day, since the heat in certain parts of the building is either a joke or an inferno. The icing on the cake is that half the school is ill, so I can't imagine that being drenched in sub-freezing rain will help the situation.
It's high time for a sudden outbreak of common sense...