Welcome to LOCK DOWN

With about 20 minutes left in my second class of the day, suddenly there came a very odd crackle from the speaker on the wall. In the silence that followed came the announcement we most dread. "We are in a lock down situation. Please remain in lock down until further notice." This means we close all the blinds, turn off all the lights, lock the doors, and sit huddled in complete silence on the floor behind the most solid wall under the windows. Usually, this, however annoying, is just a drill, and after 5 minutes of silence we are released. Today, however, it was not a drill. We sat for 20 minutes before hearing an announcement that there had been a "home invasion" in the houses west of CDO and that until the police apprehended the three suspects, we were to remain in complete lock down. So we sat, and we sat, and we sat. We sat through the end of the period, we sat through lunch, we sat well into the last period of the day. In silence. After about an hour, they notified us that one suspect had been caught, but 2 remained, and after a full 2 hours they announced that 2 suspects had been caught and that the last was "significantly south of CDO", and we were allowed out and sent home. It sucked. The End