Unfiltered Story #132982

(I run the transportation office for a large university. Our new student union is across the street from my office. The fire alarm goes off and 2 fire trucks show up and the police block one end of the street. My office phone rings.)

Me: “Thank you for calling Transportation Services”
Caller: “Yes, I need to get to the parking garage but the police are blocking the road.”
Me:”Yes Ma’am. The fire alarm went off at the Student Union.” (And the two large, red fire trucks were well within site of where the caller was at).
Caller:”Well, the police are blocking the road.”
Me: (after a moment of ,trying to figure out how to reply)”Ma’am, I can’t tell the police what to do. You can go around and come down from the other end of the street.”
Caller: “Oh.’ (Clck)