Emergency Exit is for Emergency!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!
Hope that all of you had a wonderful Christmas!

Like what you see from the title, I learned my lesson on Christmas that emergency exit is intended for emergency only. And here're the details of what exactly happened to me.

So here's the story. And it'll be a long one. Fasten your seatbelt folks!

Last week, I asked my bestie -Joshuana- a big favor when she was in Jakarta and about to leave to Brisbane. I asked her to bring my gift, which was a box of gingerbread biscuits to my GPdI Brisbane friends with their christmas card of course, and pass them to everyone on the Christmas Dinner. So I wait for about a week or less, and they finnaly get to see the biscuits and receive my cards.
They were so sweet! So one of my friend sent me a video of them saying 'Thank you and we love you. Merry Christmas!' and Reza (who sent me the video) asked me to record another video of me as a reply!
And this is the part where things started to get a lil bit crazy.

First! I was in the middle of a very crowded mall on the 24th December, and their 'thank you' video almost made me cry! Not almost! It did make cry, just a lil bit, so noone noticed and my eyeliner was fine :)

Second! Once again, I was in the middle of the mall! How could I record a video of MYSELF by myself without people looking at me with their 'are-you-crazy?' look?
Toilet was in my mind as an option but no, people could hear me talking to myself over and over again on the same conversation cos I'm such a perfectionist when it comes to a video recording which means there will be quite a lot of retakes going on when I record the video. But I didn't record it in the toilet cos it was quite inappropriate to,I think.

So based on those 2 things. I came up with the idea of "Oh! Why don't I record it in the emergency stairs? No one will be there, and it's better than the toilet!"
Brilliant idea right?? At that time I was thinking how genius I am! Well apparently I wasn't that genius.

I went into the nearest emergeny stairs, ALONE, and recorded a few reply videos as Reza requested and finally get something that I was quite happy with and able to send it through whatsapp.
So while I try to send the video and walk to the exit door (to enter the mall again) I found out that it was, sorry, it IS a one way door!!!

Oh sweet Jesus!! I can't get in to the mall!!!!!!!!
I was panic! But I also thought that that was very very very hilarious! How random that is?! Locked inside the emergency exit in the mall on the christmas eve?! LOL
Life does know how to surprise me.

So reacting on the panic attack, I walk down (on my heels) from Upper-Ground Level to Lower-Ground Level and found the real exit door. Yaaayyyy!! And it's locked as well! Oh maaannn! Why do you have to lock the main exit door? Noone can exit from here then!!

Okay, going down didn't work. So I went upstairs from Lower-Ground to Ground then Upper-Ground and so on til level 4!! Good thing I was smart enough to took off my heels beforehand. And you know what? ALL OF THE DOOR ON EACH LEVEL WERE LOCKED!!!!
Oh Nooooo!! Plan A failed.

Yes! I was panicking but I couldn't help myself to laugh at myself as well. LOL
The brilliant idea wasn't so brilliant at all, was it?
and another awesome thing is, there was NO EMERGENCY CONTACT number to call in case if you were locked inside like me, AND!!! My phone was about to die. Great! Perfect! Awesome! Excellent!

And here's another hilarious side of my way of think. I even had a thought of setting something up on fire so they will open up the emergency exit and I'll be free! Yaayy!! But the thing is (as you can see in the pictures), there were nothing in the emergency exit except stairs! And I don't have a lighter, I don't smoke, how do I get something on fire when I can create fire?! Plan B failed..

So now the big question.
How the heck did I manage to get out from there, still alive and manage to write this on my blog?

Truly is amazing! My God's plan and timing are always right on time!

I was in that mall waiting for my friend cos we were going to a Christmas Service, and she whatsapped me where do I wanna meet and I told her she needed to get in to the mall and get me out of the emergency exit. And of course let her know that my phone is about to die.
So I waited for about half an hour til she came and FINALLY open that freaking one-way exit door!
Did I mention that the emergency exit was super hot? I was sweating like crazy!! And FINALLY I got out!!
And I just couldn't stop laughing and so did my friend who saved my life.

Another irony is, the video that I sent, was failed, and it was delivered when the dinner party was over. LOL
so pointless, but yet so awesome!
I still couldn't help myself to laugh everytime I remember this 'accident'

I guess everyone has their own clumsy moment and mine was right on the Christmas Eve!

Lesson learned!
Never enter an emergency exit door if you're not in any kind of emergency situation! Recording a reply video is NOT an emergency situation!

PS: I attached some pictures of the 'emergency' situation I was in. as a remembrance of how random life can be.

xoxo

Ms. A

HELP ME!!!!