THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!!!

Well, it looks like 2012 might be as crazy as 2011. As the day started with students it seemed like any other start to the semester. We had students at two different enterances getting their schedules.
Then, the fire alarm went off...Great, some braty kid decided to pull the alarm...or so I thought. We weren't sure if we should send the kids outside or not. I looked down the hall and saw Mr. Mosley running down the hall, smoke billowing behind him and yelling, "THIS IS NOT A DRILL!" Oh my gosh, I thought, this is what we have been practicing every month since I was 5. Then I found myslef standing there thinking, "Now what? Oh right, get the kids out of the building." This kids quickly went out the door but the teachers who were handing out schedules just sat there thinking it was a kid who just pulled the alarm. So I started pushing the one of the teachers out of his chair and yelling, "THIS IS NOT A DRILL! THE HALL IS FULL OF SMOKE!" Teachers are worse than the kids sometimes :)
Finally they went outside, kids were everywhere they had no class to report to because we had not even made it to class. The chaos started to settle down and the assistant principal appeared through the smoke and we found out.....a fire extinguisher had fallen off the wall, hit the floor and exploded. No fire, but still a hall full of smoke. Trust me, you would have thought the entire hall was on fire with all the smoke. You couldn't see from one end to the other.
What a crazy way to start the new semester. I am not really sure those drills ,required by law, every month were really much help at that point. But no kids were hurt and there really wasn't a fire.