So remember that time someone locked you in the office?

The teacher's office where I sit is a converted classroom. This means that the doors are sliding doors and there's a latch on the outside that closes with a padlock. Usually, there's always at least one teacher inside the office so no one ever bothers to lock the door.

Today, I was the last one in the room when the other teacher's went out for lunch. I heard them close the door (I was working on lesson plans at my computer) and then heard noise that sounded like a padlock being locked. I assumed the kids in the hall were just playing with the door and the lock - it wouldn't be the first time. I went on working for the next 45 minutes until I was absolutely starving at 12:30.

I got up to go to lunch only to find out that the door wouldn't slide open. One of the teacher's had locked me in the office.

I had no idea of any of the other English teacher's extensions in their offices nor any of them answer their cell phones when I tried to call. I tried to bang on the door in the hopes that a student would come and understand what was going on but no one heard anything through the noise of lunch being served to the students in their classrooms.

Eventually a student did come along at about 12:45 and between the small crack of the window that was not covered by posters, I waved frantically. They looked confused that someone was in there and the door was padlocked shut.

"Teacher! Unlock! Door" I said to the poor kid who was on the other side. The kid stood there still stunned that there was someone in the office. "Get a teacher! Door!" The kid rattled the lock to indicate it was, indeed, locked. "Yes! Go to a teacher. Key. Door!" I said again. Eventually, he left (probably wondering about the state of my English and just how I was the English teacher). I knew I was as good as missing lunch.

Finally at 12:50 one of the teacher's came back from lunch.

"Hooray!" I shouted as he opened the door. He looked surprised at the fact that I was in a room with the door locked. I didn't give him much time to compose a sentence (he's a Korean math teacher) and ran to catch the end of a not so pleasant lunch.