[alcibie1]

Yesterday I was sitting in the waiting area waiting for my counsellor when the fire alarm went off! It was weird because I am very trained from my own job to respond and yet because I was there and already in the "young" mode I seem to go into, I couldn't move or decide what to do. My counsellor came and said she would check if we needed to leave the building. Instantly I was trying to envisage that situation. Would I leave with her? Would I stand with her or maybe she'd be busy with colleagues (how I love overthinking!) but it didn't come to that. During the session there was almost constant noise from a gardening job outside, didn't really bother me as much as I thought but she warned me a few times that it might distract her.
Just made me think about how the little unexpected things seem so huge in the therapy setting when in "real life" they just happen along.

[unaluna]

Ive had the fire alarm go off in session too! Im like, oh no, my knees are not going to like going down that many stairs - t is in a high rise. Then an announcement came on that it was a test or something. But yeah, its really strange, having real life intrude on therapy world.

[archipelago]

With fire alarms, it may not only be therapy. I used to be a professor and was staying at a hotel attending a conference with other professors. The fire alarm went off and everyone left the building at 2am.

Funny thing was to see how people were dressed. The senior, tenured professors were in whatever state they were in, some just covered with a bathrobe. But the junior, untenured professors were all dressed, some even with belts fastened. It was hilarious. I was in between--boxer shorts and a leather jacket.