One day's library antics (1 of 3): Fire alarm.

So, the other day I was working in the library, and the fire alarm goes off, and everyone floods outside.

Amongst the crowd, I saw several people I knew, and I made the same joke to each:

"I almost expected we'd come out into machine gun fire or get herded into cattle cars or paddy wagons!".

Then, I'd add, in a low, sort of conspiratorial tone-of-voice, "You know, it's Trump's America now, and that'd be a good way to purge the intellectuals, just send people around to pull the fire alarms in all the university libraries, then do that stuff to them..."