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Today I got stuck between two locked doors.

If this kind of beginning doesn't catch your attention, I don't know what will!
I am on placement in a new school and today, we had a staff meeting that finished quite late. In most schools, there are two entrances. One at the front called the main reception where anybody who needs to sign in before entering the school go through and is buzzed in by someone and one at the back of the building used mainly by the teachers. I - being a teacher there for only three weeks - always came through the main reception where I received a visitor badge. Someone always had to press a button to let me through. When I left the building today, I went back from the same route than usual to sign out. Big mistake. No one was at the reception. To my complete horror, the door to freedom was locked. Not only nobody could let me come back inside but I couldn't find any way of going out either. For a second, I panicked. The idea of being stuck for the night suddenly dawned on me. I then realized that not only did I not have any useful contact numbers to call but also, I didn't even know which number was the police - see how my mind jumped into emergency mode! Luckily, I could still hear some noise far away from people talking so I decided to knock repeatedly on the inside door. Next to it stood a glass frame with trophies inside it which made quite a lot of noise when you banged on it. After what it seems like forever (five minutes in reality), I got delivered by a nice cleaning lady. The most embarrassing part of the whole story is that I actually cried when she opened the door. I wouldn't usually. But I am on my period and even the smallest thing affects me. Ridiculous but there it is....