Flametoad

In a crisis, would you be a sheep or a sheepdog?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090570/At-5am-I-bottle-vintage-Cristal-champagne-No-cried-head-waiter-Those-wrong-glasses.html

‘We’d never met each other but I have to say, it was a true British stiff upper-lip situation. Together, the Brits helped to keep up morale.

‘There was a can-do attitude. We thought, ‘Let’s get the barricades done, let’s do the practical things rather than sit there like sheep and wait to meet our fate.’

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‘But come 5am, we were fairly confident the police were going to get us out, so I marched over to the bar and found a bottle of vintage Cristal champagne and opened it and began pouring it into glasses.

‘Then the head waiter came rushing across to me and said, “No, no, you can’t do that!” and I said, ‘Well we’re going to’ and he said, ‘No sir, those are the wrong type of glasses. I shall find you champagne flutes.’

‘And he did. The service was immaculate.’

I’ve volunteered to participate in a “emergency preparedness exercise” simulating a campus shooter scenario here at our university later this month. It’ll be very interesting to see how realistic (if at all) they try to make it and what the outcome will be. I have no idea what role they’ll assign me, but definitely expect an after-action report.