First Person, Present Tense

Walking into the door I meet a man who tells me I must go to the auditorium to find out if I work today. I haven't listened to the radio, tv, or spoken to anyone in the know all morning and early afternoon. I go to the auditorium where I am told to badge in and sit in a chair. We are sitting and I finally find out what is going on. There has been a bomb threat against the hospital I work at and they are completing their final sweep through the hospital to determine if there is a bomb and if we are going to evacuate the building. We are antsy since too many of us are shoved into a too small room, some are scared and nervous. I am not, merely bored. I play a little puzzle game I happen to have in my coat pocket.

They bring us cookies and finally the news that we have the all clear and we are to return to our work stations. I go and get dresses in the ever so flattering scrubs and being working. Later, through an email and the grape vine we find out that a fellow employee called in the bomb threat and that there was no bomb. The fellow employee turned him or herself in; they did not reveal the gender of the person.