Add your 'Grrr's here - Inconsiderate colleagues / public - 2 Minute Silence

We got years 7, 8 and 9 (we're a split site school) to congregate in the playground and observed the 2 minutes silence outside whilst a year 7 lad played the Last Post. Very poignant. However, there was one year 8 boy who pratted about throughout and so lost his free time for the rest of the day and an after-school detention as a result.

I was running a training course this morning so i stopped at 10.55 at a point that wasn't a natural break so people could observe the silence in private if they wanted to.

Our silence was marked by a fire alarm.

I was on my way outside, when they rang the first fire alarm early, so I just stood in the corridor with another member of staff (her toast was going cold - I think she wouldn't have stopped if I wasn't there!)

Then the silence only lasted 30 seconds! They rang the second bell really soon

i nearly made a similar mistake. i was just walking to our room when there was a tanoy announcement to say we would have a 2 mins silence at 11...i then crashed through the door to realise ours had already started. ? (our room is sound proofed so they wouldnt have heard the message) but at least i hadn't totally goofed by yelling out 'hi' or something

its very very strange having a silence in a radio control room. its something that never happens naturally

I did intend to, but I got called up to a colleagues desk to go through some work, and then it ended up in a discussion, and it wasnt till the aircon clicked off just after 11 that I realised I had missed it. Had I been at my own desk i would have had an eye on the time - there wasnt any alarm of anything to indicate it (unless the aircon clicking off was intentional)

I feel really bad about it. That and the fact I couldnt wear my poppy properly as I dont have a button hole on my jacket, and the place I got the poppy said that they arent allowed to sell pins anymore so it was a plastic stem, so no way of sticking it anywhere visible.

surely you have a pin somewhere in your house?

do you want me to post you one for next year? ?

i amazed at the amount of people who've said their poppy sellers won't provide pins, i've got three this year and all be-pinned

The lot in Aberdeen do, but they won't let you pin it on yourself... sigh.

We did it at Canadian Pacific Time in Vancouver this morning and there was someone yelling something (not sure what though) just before but she was hauled off out the way before the silence kicked in.... For the 1st time, I actually cried.

J