Exam pass
So this morning I was rudely awakened by a phone call at 730a.m., admittedly I was very unhappy, I valued days when I could actually sleep in given that my latest class this semester is at 830a.m. So when I heard my brother's voice telling me that he had forgotten his exam pass and wanted me to take it to school for him, I became even more cranky. Not that it helped when my phone died on me and I spent fifteen minutes running around the house looking for the charger before I found it. By then there were 7 missed calls from my brother. When you desperately want to get back to sleep that just fuels your anger. I plugged my phone in and howled a bit at my brother before I grudgingly brushed and dressed and set off.
When I had calmed down sufficiently(after I had gone home and gotten some sleep that is), I recalled a similar incident that happened in high school, to me.
After one of the UEC exams, the subject of which escapes me, I was discussing with my friends outside the classroom, with my exam pass in hand. After a bit, I went and packed up, setting the exam pass aside on the floor. A gust of wind blew, and a few pieces of paper were blown away. I paid no heed. I thought they were the unwanted exam papers of some person. By the time the papers had been blown a good two large strides from me, I realised my exam pass was missing. Panic! *brain clicks* Uh Oh.
I ran after it, but neither me nor my classmates were able to catch it, so we watched as the wind brought it over the 3rd floor balcony. I was freaking out by now. The wind carried the paper away from the balcony, precariously close to one of those SESCO generator enclosure things. I began willing the pass to land on the road, beside the enclosure. It looked like it was going to do just that, but then a breeze came and the pass drifted slowly into the enclosure. GREAT.
Then it started raining. Joy.
I went to my teachers who tried to find a way into the enclosure, turned out no one in school had the keys. Just my luck. So my teachers talked to the invigilators and explained my predicament and I completed the rest of my exams without my pass.
I sometimes wonder what happened to that pass, but more often I think, 'Seriously? That was my luck?'
When I had calmed down sufficiently(after I had gone home and gotten some sleep that is), I recalled a similar incident that happened in high school, to me.
After one of the UEC exams, the subject of which escapes me, I was discussing with my friends outside the classroom, with my exam pass in hand. After a bit, I went and packed up, setting the exam pass aside on the floor. A gust of wind blew, and a few pieces of paper were blown away. I paid no heed. I thought they were the unwanted exam papers of some person. By the time the papers had been blown a good two large strides from me, I realised my exam pass was missing. Panic! *brain clicks* Uh Oh.
I ran after it, but neither me nor my classmates were able to catch it, so we watched as the wind brought it over the 3rd floor balcony. I was freaking out by now. The wind carried the paper away from the balcony, precariously close to one of those SESCO generator enclosure things. I began willing the pass to land on the road, beside the enclosure. It looked like it was going to do just that, but then a breeze came and the pass drifted slowly into the enclosure. GREAT.
Then it started raining. Joy.
I went to my teachers who tried to find a way into the enclosure, turned out no one in school had the keys. Just my luck. So my teachers talked to the invigilators and explained my predicament and I completed the rest of my exams without my pass.
I sometimes wonder what happened to that pass, but more often I think, 'Seriously? That was my luck?'