I passed this graffiti on my walk to work yesterday morning. I thought, "Does that say what I think it says?" And in fact it does.
I was going to title this post HotSexTime but then I figured none of you would click on it because you'd be afraid I'd been hacked by some virus-spreading bot.
Today is going to be a short one at work. It's our last day with students, but it's only a half-day. The kids leave at noon, and then all the faculty are off to their year-end divisional lunches. I am not included in any of those events because I'm a cross-divisional employee, working for the middle, lower and high schools. So I get to come home! (I think in theory I could choose a divisional lunch to attend but I'm fine with missing out.)
I'm supposed to do some online fire safety training module (don't those words just make you want to die?) but I think I'll wait until tomorrow to tackle that. It's going to take a couple of hours, which seems insane to me. I'm a fire warden for the library, but all that means is I have to make sure the space is cleared if the fire alarm goes off. I don't need to know how to fight the fire. So why two hours of training? I have no idea!
I also have First Aid Awareness training tomorrow morning. We have to do that every two years, to refresh our CPR skills and that kind of thing. At least in the back of my head I can sustain myself with the knowledge that it's the last time.
The collapsed bench is still on Finchley Road outside the telephone exchange. Someone very helpfully put large cones around it, just so no one would be tempted to sit down. Wouldn't it be easier to just haul it away? You would think so, right?
I think you'd get a lot of hits if you used hotsextime as your title. It certainly wouldn't keep me away, but I'm a wild woman and I get worse (or better) every year.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
I'd get hits but probably not the kind I'd want!
DeleteHauling that bench away involves paperwork, approval, the hiring of trucks and lifters and then "where will we put it?" etc. Much easier to just drop off a few cones. (*~*)
ReplyDeleteInteresting graffiti.
You're so right! There's probably a whole "bench removal code."
DeleteWhen you are acting as a fire warden do you get to wear a uniform with a yellow helmet, carrying a hose or an axe or something? It seems like a very responsible position. Are you sure you are still up to it now that you are on the downward slope to retirement? By the way, when is "HOTSEXTIME"?
ReplyDeleteActually, in the training video, the fire marshal had his own hi-viz vest! I was like, "Why don't I get one of those?!"
DeleteSounds like a quirky end to the school year
ReplyDeleteActually fairly routine, except for the graffiti!
DeleteI wonder if the graffiti is a private message. Or maybe that’s where it happens. Weird to have fire safety refreshers at the end of the school year instead of the beginning.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if HotSexTime is the work of one artist or several? Maybe "Hot," "Sex" and "Time" are all tags by three individuals? (Though the handstyle looks the same.)
DeleteI certainly would have clicked on the post if you used that title, but I expect you already know I would.
ReplyDeleteI think your fire warden position should mean you get the books to safety if fire threatens.
The cones tell the public and higher up authorities that the broken seat will be dealt with. If someone did sit on the broken seat and hurt themselves, the council would absolve itself by saying it had made the area safe, and dealing with the seat is on the list of council works, as its budget allows.
When I was thinking of that headline, I thought, "Well, Andrew will like it!" LOL
DeleteAs for the books, no way. They're on their own.
I bet the cones are to stop people calling. We know! We're on it!
ReplyDeleteI think your new boss has precipitated your retirement plans. I don't remember your having so much pressure before. Maybe that's her purpose.
Definitely, the changes in the library have contributed to my desire to leave.
DeleteWe have a chair similar to that bench on our front drive. It will make very good kindling.
ReplyDeleteIf only I had something to burn kindling in!
DeleteWhen you mentioned the trainings that you had to do, it brought me back to all of the useless trainings that I used to do. The exciting thing for you is that this is your last time!
ReplyDeleteIt made them bearable, to realize I'll never have to do them again.
DeleteI think The Office captured those in-office trainings very well. The best part of retirement for you may be that you never, ever have to do another.
ReplyDeleteThat is seriously a huge plus!
DeleteYou'd think you'd know how to clear a library without a two hour course. I wonder how many new followers you would get with the title Hot Sex Time?
ReplyDeleteProbably a lot of clicks but not many followers, as they'd all go away disappointed!
DeleteI hate mandatory trainings - the only way I can get through them is to crochet (if I can - if it's something I have to read on screen then I'm sunk).
ReplyDeleteDon't the bosses get mad if you crochet? Or is this only during video trainings?
DeleteWithout those cones I'd think I'd take a seat ... and wait for some HotSexTime to come along.
ReplyDeleteProbably how the bench got broken to begin with. TSK.
DeleteHa! It would be a very visible place for HotSexTime, but you never know.
DeleteSTOP DROP AND ROLL. Put the back of your hand against a door to see if it is hot. If it is don't open it. Don't use the elevators. Know your nearest exit. Have a meeting place. There. You're done!
ReplyDeleteThat bench makes me laugh. Presumably, someone took a truck out with those cones. Why not just load the bench onto the truck and go? Seems fairly straight forward to me.
Re. the fire training: Exactly! How hard can it be?
DeleteRe. the bench: Exactly! How hard can it be?
I'm guessing it is due to the litigious nature of society why these sorts of training sessions are required. I volunteered to count collection money after church once a month. To do that required me to take about three hours of online training modules from how to report sexual predators to driving without looking at a cellphone. Not a single one was actually about money or the counting of it.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that as a volunteer you had to take those sorts of courses. If you were a paid employee I could see it.
DeleteEnjoy The Last Day With Students There Brother Man
ReplyDeleteYahoooooo0000000000000
That's what I'll be saying!
DeleteYes, it does seem odd to have training at the end of the school year. You have all summer to forget what you learned!
ReplyDeleteBetter to get it out of the way now, but I think you're right that my knowledge base will be shakier as a result.
DeleteBelieve me, you don't want to put sex in your title. I did a whole post, with admittedly a very graphic photo of a carving on a Hindu temple (I think it was Hindu), on sex during my alphabet posts, S is for..., and was inundated with hits from men looking for porn mostly from the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Asia. The post was flagged as porn even though there was nothing pornographic in the post just a frank essay on repressive attitudes about sex and some people were prevented from going to my blog. took months for it all to die down.
ReplyDeleteA couple of the blogs I read now are blocked by our Internet filter at work, and I have no idea why. They probably put up a single post like yours at some point in the past. (Though weirdly your blog is not blocked!)
DeleteJust think, this will be the last of training sessions for you. You'll be full trained yet retired. They'll have to train somebody else.
ReplyDeletePlacing cones around the bench seems silly. Why not just take it away?
Common sense is sometimes lacking!
I really don't get the bench thing. It would be just as easy to haul it off. But as River said above, there are probably all sorts of rules and logistics involved.
DeleteTwo hours for fire safety training seems pretty extreme. I can't imagine what it's going to cover. You are right about that bench. It just needs to be hauled away.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't have deciphered that graffiti if you hadn't done it. I'm no good at figuring out those fat, overlapping letters. Good thing you didn't put that in your title.
It turned out to be THREE hours! Unreal.Graffiti can be hard to read and I'm not always successful, but this one wasn't too hard to figure out.
DeleteOh dear....my last job was to design and create those boring online training courses! Sorry!!
ReplyDeleteOh, Lord. So it was YOU who put me through that fire training hell?!
DeleteSome of these rules may be a pain but they are very necessary.
ReplyDeleteSome of them are necessary. Some are overkill, in my opinion.
DeleteTrainings! I got my fill of them; we had about 8 of them to do and they took time and were mind-numbing. Two hours for one seems excessive. Happy Summer, officially! School getting out is when it actually felt like it to me.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure teachers have to sit through much longer and more frustrating training courses than I do. I shouldn't complain.
DeleteNever a bad thing to get refreshed on CPR. I was certified years ago, but I think a lot of it has changed!
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's much different now than when I first learned it back in 1990 or so. Now it's 30 compressions for every two breaths; back then it was ten to two, as I recall. Sometimes they say not to do rescue breaths at all.
DeleteHa, yes, you'd think so.
ReplyDeleteWe all have to do those workplace courses (fire, emergency, occupational health & safety) and I assume those in the US do them too? Meanwhile their president pardons Jan 6 rioters. I don't mind safety education even when it's not relevant to my work, but what is the point of workplace safety, if rioters can be pardoned? Sigh.
It's true! What kind of safety culture do we have if our seat of government can be invaded and ransacked with impunity?
DeleteFire Safety Training: what's to know except to jump up and down while screaming "A fire, a fire, everybody get out!"
ReplyDeleteAnd that's basically the extent of my responsibility!
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