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Complacency
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
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When the alarm sounded, most of us were in the break room. We didn’t need to check the bulletin board to know we were to exit through the rear stairwell. Even so, we took our time evacuating.
The post office had been receiving bomb threats for years. When I was first hired, I was constantly nervous, but over time I’d realized we weren’t in any real danger. No more than everyone else, anyway.
Today was different. Today there really was a bomb. Perhaps if we’d hurried, the death toll wouldn’t have been so high. Perhaps I’d still have my legs.