I know that sometimes (on the downhill) I can really burn tire, but today my bike was cited as a fire hazard! I'm not bitter, actually I think it is really funny.
I bike into school, its only a mile away but at night I don't want to be walking around DC! On really late nights and rainy days I park my bike in a neglected stairway. This is a large stairway (one of three on the floor by the way) and it is not just a stairway but a rather large room that amply holds my bike against the rail that keeps you from falling down the stairway pit- not the hand hold rail, a coat rack for lab coats, a desk, a chair, and a shopping cart- yes a shopping cart?! Well my professor said I could lock it up there because no one really uses the stairs and no one would see it. We are on the sop floor and there 11 people in my hallway and in the most terrible fire we would not be traffic jammed in the stairway room.
Today, during the rainy day I locked the bike up to the stair rail. Some tool of OSHA from the University stopped by and said that the bike had to be moved. It was not okay there. It was a fire hazard and couldn't be in the stairway. I like that she did not say that the bike was not okay inside (ahem it may not be). So my mentor cheekily asked if she could keep it in the lab. yep. or if she could keep it in the workroom. yep. my mentor just smirks. those areas are more of fire hazards than the stairwell. the stairwell is larger than the workroom and almost as large as the main part of the lab.
So that is my odd story on how I can create a firehazard by removing a firehazard. seriously.
