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Originally Posted by snowman
I called the floor over once and asked them to turn the music down as I couldn't concentrate.
Floor said Sir that's the fire alarm you all need to vacate the building ; at which point we all picked up our chips and got in the long line at the cashiers cage to cash out
In all the fire alarms and bomb threats that required evacuation poker players were the worst. Trying to finish hands, trying to cash out their chips, telling dealers "the action was on him" when we get back and "save my seat".
When those alarms go off I'm going to beat you out the door (though I did usually throw the cover on the tray). I once made it to our designated evacuation spot with only my uniform on (it was freezing) and they wouldn't let us start our cars or use our phones because the bomb squad was afraid it would set a bomb off. They sent in a robot to detonate it (the explosion was pretty cool), and it turned out to be cartons of cigarettes.