Today, my college had a lock down drill. They didn't tell us what time the drill would be, just that it would be today. I hate lock down drills with a dying passion. I hate being herded like cattle to a room with no windows that I can't escape. I hate feeling like i'm in elementary school again. I think lock down drills are degrading and I hate them. I'm an adult and I feel like I should get a choice. So I planned to sit in my car during the drill. 




The drill happened at noon. In between my 10:30AM and 12:15 class. So I walked out the front door towards my car. On the way to my car I was confronted by what seemed like a barrage of security staff and quality of life management members telling me to go back to room whatever. To which I said "no thank you." I didn't get in trouble or anything, but it seemed like the staff members were pretty peeved that no one was taking it seriously. They even sent out a strongly worded email informing us that we should be taking the drills way more seriously.



I feel like I know what to do if there were an actual school shooter. I do feel moderately bad for whatever staff members were being graded on the performance of the school. But I still feel like I did nothing wrong because, as I said to the staff, "I'm an adult, no thank you."