Empirically Establishing that the Correlation Between Stupidity and Athleticism is a Two-way Dynamic

[mbarrick]

It is a well established truism that athleticism often directly corresponds to thick-wittedness. I discovered today that the converse is also true, thick-wittedness can lead to athleticism.

I decided it would be a good idea to get a little extra exercise by walking down the stairs after work. I stupidly did not plan this and discovered that the exit door at the bottom of the stairwell is alarmed and only useful in an emergency. I subsequently discovered that all the stairwell doors on every floor require either a pass-card or key to open. I wound up walking all the way back up to the office and calling a coworker to let me back in so I could get out of the building without setting off an alarm. It should be noted that I work on the 24th floor.

Walking down twenty-four floors is a moderate bit of extra exercise. Turning around and walking back up twenty-four floors is a workout. By being stupid I got far more exercise than I bargained for, ergo the subject line of this post.

Tangentially though, I'm a little annoyed that the option to use the stairs is not a viable one. I've worked in other towers before and was never barred from using the stairs like this. Mind you, that was all before the terrorists won and the Western World became wrapped in paranoid idiocy. 

Comments

[sciencequeen.livejournal.com]

Oh man that sounds rugged!!

I'm trying to dispel the myth that people who are into their health are not jock-assed clods! You can be fit and awesome, I SWEAR! I'm working on it! :P

[kitsune-13.livejournal.com]

my work building is similar, however, you can exit at the bottom, you just can't walk UP the stairs..stupid stupid stupid.

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

i work in a paranoid gov't building under a bomb threat alert for the last month or so...though i can walk down the stairs and even up the stairs from the ground floor and from outside...our pass key opens the door from the outside...

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

yeah, being stuck in a stairwell like that and not being able to get out- i think that's a nightmare right there...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_disdain_/]

I think the only time I've seen that was in an office building I worked in 7 or 8 years ago, although they only locked the stairwells on the weekends.