A friend of mine (LEH) is a teacher. While at school, she is usually busy teaching or correcting papers. One day she was correcting papers. Generally, she hardly looks up to see what is happening around her. It was late afternoon and teachers started to leave for home one after another. LEH continued her corrections unaware of what was happening around her.
Around 6PM she looked up to see that she was alone in the room and saw there were birds chirping outside. She smiled to herself and went back to her work thinking she will finish her work in a few minutes and then leave.
She finished and then turned to look outside the window. Her jaw dropped, she started shaking. It was pitch dark outside and eerie. No noise.
There was no one within 100 ft of her. She desperately wanted to run down from the staff room and away from the school to civilization where there was light and where there would be people.
She knew the principal would be working late. But she was too embarrassed to call and request the principal on the phone to come up to the staff room and escort her down. LEH was too proud. No, she would manage on her own.
But she had to close the windows and lock the room before leaving. The school where she works is rather strict in these matters. She tiptoed to the window and in 10 minutes bolted the windows (her hands were shaking terribly by now, she was imagining faces outside the window) and walked fast back to the door. She closed the door and in the dark found the right key and with a snap (of her teeth which were chattering rather loudly) locked the door and swiftly flew down the stairs to light and safety.
After a couple of days she recounted this incident to me. As per her request I am letting others know of this incident. Correcting homework is quite harmful to health.
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