The other day, I was in the telecom office at ISB sending a fax when some alarm or other started going off. I'm from Jakarta where we have different alarms for GO OUT (fire) and LOCK THE DOOR AND HIDE (violent intruder). Had no idea what any of the various alarms meant at ISB, so looked to Thai staff for guidance. They were just sort of standing around looking annoyed, but neither exiting nor hiding. Followed their lead and just ignored the whooping for like five minutes . . . until Bill, the head of school, came busting in with a walkie talkie! He says to me, "There's a fire alarm! What are you just standing there for?" and I said something dumb like, "Oh, is that what that noise is?" and he hustled me out the door.
Am positive that did not impress Headmaster. Quite the opposite actually. Is even more embarressing as he has a house in Estes Park and is my potential neighbor. Considering writing email to him outlining life in Indonesia and the mind-boggling number of disasters, disaster drills, false alarms, etc. that tend to make one somewhat immune to alarms of all stripes. On second thought, is probably a lame excuse.
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