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Fire Drill May 10, 2005

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Today the building I work in had a fire drill. The evacuation point was two nearby overpasses over the 134 freeway. (I won’t go into the logic of evacuating to a bridge in an emergency in Southern California.) What did most truckers and many car drivers do when they saw hundreds of people standing on a bridge looking down at them? Wave, honk their horns, and nearly get in accidents as they looked at all the people and wondered what they were missing. I had great fun making the universal honk-your-horn-sign–we even got one trucker to honk his horn for 5 seconds. I noticed that many truck drivers would reach for their horns even if they didn’t honk–it must be instinct, like when they see a school bus. It was a very entertaining fire drill, at least as far as fire drills go.