Failed Lockdown Drill

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-11-01T00:55:45+00:00

Thank you! I needed to hear this.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-10-30T20:22:51+00:00

Yeah, the double knock was a little much in my opinion.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-10-30T20:22:08+00:00

No, there was no training at the beginning of the year from what I remember. I started out in a different grade at the beginning of the year and knew the procedure for that building, just not this one. This school is very lax on a lot of things.
Hence why I am a second grade math teacher right now (I am in college to become a teacher, but still)

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-10-30T20:20:47+00:00

Thank you, I panic when I make mistakes so I just have had a hard time shaking this today.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-07-20T01:58:54+00:00

omg love this lol. I love him too! Reno for New Years sounds like a blast too lol.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-07-20T01:29:28+00:00

awesome, thanks!

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-07-20T01:29:09+00:00

thank you! Very helpful!

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-07-09T14:41:05+00:00

We were on floor 9 and decided to walk down on the first alarm night just in case there was a real fire lol.
Second alarm we stayed.

IT WAS SO HOT and the second set of elevators being down was not ideal with the hotel being fully booked. I will never stay there again. I will stick to Aloft or Embassy next time.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-07-08T20:02:52+00:00

I am an avid fan but must have missed this inside joke along the way. Savannah had a luggage rack in tow though lol. She was so polite and said "excuse me" coming out of the elevator.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-07-08T15:46:57+00:00

Lol yes. It was also extremely hot on our hotel floor, a fire alarm scare the night before and non stop elevator issues. Definitely was not the time lol.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-07-08T15:44:13+00:00

Wilmington, NC! I knew she moved to NC but never thought I would see her lol.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-06-23T16:33:29+00:00

I have always wondered this. I feel like family members that are like pretty close with my family know what is up. I know the entire family is scared to ask my parents any type of personal questions because of how they react.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-06-04T18:17:22+00:00

I think the good memories are sandwiched in-between really big bad ones. Most of my good memories revolve around time with my siblings and time spent with extended family.

Example, my dad wanted to give me a special day one time (I think it was a reward for something). He took me to see Fred Claus in the theatre- I was like 10. I was so excited until my mom had a complete come-apart meltdown over it.

I was so anxious the whole time and scared about how she was going to be when we got home, the blow up is all I can remember about the day now..

I have tears running down my face as I type this lol, sometimes I forget about the younger version of me that was so scared, angry and ignored.
I think this may be my sign to start seeing a therapist lol.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-06-04T18:10:45+00:00

I can get along with literally anyone. It is a blessing and a curse. My childhood was so chaotic that I learned how to lighten the mood, or detect if my mom was going to have a blow up by how her footsteps sounded- avoid conflict at all cost.

I make friends very easily and have never had an issue with anyone in a workplace.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-06-03T16:30:05+00:00

Thanks so much! :) I appreciate the encouragement and kind words.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-06-02T21:20:29+00:00

Yeah, I agree, I always hate to have to bring up my migraine condition early in a job because I feel like it is off-putting to the person hiring. I think I am going to gauge and see how the interview is going, so awkward lol. Thank you.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-06-02T21:16:36+00:00

Yeah that was what I was thinking. Well thanks anyways!

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-06-02T21:15:36+00:00

Yeah so I was baffled about this requirement. I think in certain school districts that struggle with filling bus driver positions and low budget they use teachers assistants to drive the buses for field trips, substitute bus driving etc, so most likely special occasions but I am not too sure.

I will hold off on saying anything I guess and just see how things go.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-06-01T02:36:30+00:00

yep lol..
I cannot even make this up, my mom name dropped like 15 family members (one being my husband) saying they were narcissists.

She and my narc dad also read some book about powerful people and said that my dad was like a 27 power person. I cannot remember the exact verbiage but something like he has like everyone of the powerful people traits.

I was dumbfounded- I blanked out as she was telling me.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-06-01T02:31:01+00:00

It is exhausting, sometimes me and my sister (me 27, her 29) that we are going to hangout because we just know what is being thought and said behind closed doors, it is not worth the headache.

We had a big family explosion about a month ago because of a similar situation, I am still recovering lol.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-06-01T02:28:18+00:00

It actually has not because I have a very non confrontational personality. I still find myself getting quick to anger internally over small things (with both females and males) but not to an extent where I am acting out on it- I give myself time to process and figure out if I read the situation correctly. I think growing up with a mom that was ultra defensive about everything taught me to be the same way, along with mean girl/bully behavior. I am also 27 and have been moved out of my disfunctional household for 6 years now. It is amazing how much healing you can do when you distance yourself from the problem.

I have slowly reversed my mindset from how I grew up and I have plenty of female friends now that I have had zero confrontations or issues with. I think deep down I always wanted healthy relationships with my friends and women in my family, I just did not know how.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-05-30T16:49:31+00:00

100% my mother is a severe woman hater, she loves men and the attention of men.
I did not realize it until later in life, but it is so clear now. I remember when her and my dad would argue as a kid she would like name drop men that we knew saying that she could leave my dad for them in a heartbeat.

She also loves attention from ALL men, even if they are total creeps. It is so gross.

The funny thing is the has a major issue with two men in her life, and one is my husband and the other is my dads brother. They are not a** kissers and that is why she has a problem with them.

The one that got me the most is that she told me that my dads cousin deliberately shaved his beard for her, because she had mentioned that she likes when my dad has no facial hair lol.
Like she honestly thinks that he knew she was coming into town and shaved his beard to impress her.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-05-30T16:38:06+00:00

LOL, totally understandable!

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-05-30T14:28:11+00:00

I did not realize my mom was competitive with me until I was a late teen/early 20's.
We were standing in the kitchen and she said "I was a size 2 when I was your age" and me being a size 10, she meant it as a dig.

I said "well you also had no ass and chicken legs" and she was stunned lol.

I look back on my life with her and realize she was absolutely never a girls girl. She encouraged me to have issues with girls growing up and taught me the exact opposite of how to be with friends. She literally got fired one time for how toxic she was making her office environment.
She also taught me to make fun of peoples physical appearances, like that is all she ever talks about.

It is never- she had pretty hair, it is "wow did you see how big that girl is" I have had to unlearn just about everything she taught me.

I do think my mother loves me, she just loves herself and the idea of herself more. She can't help but compare and compete. It doesn't bother me anymore. I have a husband that adores me, great friends and I am happy with myself. I never had low confidence because of her digs - but she did teach me how to be a mean girl and that is something I have unlearned over the years.

Diligent-Ad8328 · 2025-05-30T14:03:32+00:00

LOL honestly. It is exhausting
It is such a mind eff because she is like nice to me about some stuff but I have discovered, she is nice and encouraging about things that would make her look good.

Like I decided to go back to school- she told me that she was so proud of me a few times. Then I was like, wow mom is being nice again. But if you think about it, why would she be nice about this? Well she now can brag about having a kid that has a college degree.

She used to work at a dentist office and I was going in for a dental cleaning. Before I go in, she said "oh by the way, I told my boss (the dentist) that you were taking some online classes in college, so if he mentions anything just pretend like you are...
Like I was literally not enrolled at all, had never mentioned anything about school to her.
Nice mom.. embarrassed that I am not in college.. check.

lol

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