The Box

Earlier today, I was searching our stock room for dividers. You know, those paper dividers you use in binders to seperate "invertebrates" with "vertebrates" in your old Biology binder.

Anyway, during this searching process, I opened all the boxes we have in our stock room, to see if I could find anything. I found a white box on the top shelf that I could hardly reach. I tried to pull it off the shelf, but it was heavier than I expected it to be. Instead, I just opened the lid to feel what was inside.

As I pulled off the lid a loud siren went off, freaking me out. I dropped the box lid and looked around, hoping no one had heard the sound. It appeared no one was phased by the incident whatsoever.

Good.

I quickly finished looking around and left the stock room. I couldn't imagine what would be in that box to make a siren go off like that. Why do I always find odd things at my work?

Instead of leaving it alone, I decided to tell Daniela and Tiffany about the incident, hoping either of them knew what it could be. Daniela, being the curious type, grabbed the keys and made her way in the room as I stayed behind. She came back out of the room laughing at me.

"What was it?" I asked her.

She continued to laugh. "Oh, you'll have to find out for yourself."

I stood there. Well, okay. I had the option to stand there always wondering what could be in that mysterious box or I could grad the keys and go look for myself. I mean, there could be a treasure map to buried gold or something. I couldn't stand not knowing.

So I grabbed the keys and with Tiffany in tow, went back to find out what was in that box. I pulled it off the shelf, with much effort I might add, and sat it on a lower shelf. Fortunately, there was a glass window on top of the box, so I didn't have to open it to find out what was inside.

It was a defibrilator. Why on Earth do we have one of those? Actually, what is a defibrilator anyway? And why on Earth would a siren go off when I open the box? More questions were created than answered after finding out what was inside.

I smiled at Tiffany and realized how much of a ditz I felt like after the whole incident. Both Tiffany and Daniela continued to laugh at the situation. Well, they probably were laughing at me actually. At least it entertained the three of us for awhile.