The Rape

I think after four years of silence, it is time to overcome the shame and say:

We get raped at CSL. That is the horrible truth. We are violated EVERY DAY....



when we go into the locker room which houses between a hundred and two hundred lockers and two students per locker.

Allow me to explain.

Walls are lined with lockers, and three rows of lockers back to back form alleys that are at best 2 meters wide. There is only 3 exits. Naturally, when the day ends, its a Zerg rush for the lockers. After 8 hours at CSL, you would do the same. Anyways, suddenly, 400 of us are in a cramped space, all pushing, shoving and making our bodies impossibly small. It's like sperm trying to squeeze into the egg. You wish there could be artificial insemination and you could just be injected right beside your locker. As it is now, you need to spend a few minutes battling your way towards it. To further complicate matters, because certain people are already at their lockers, the alley is even smaller. A foot wide seems as much as you'll ever get and yet some people just stop dead in the middle to talk to a friend about some meaningless bullshit. Other inexperienced people who just don't learn, instead of kneeling, bend over to put on shoes, or pick up books which subjects them to an anal rape in addition to the unavoidable body rape already.

If there were to be a fire, first, we probably wouldn't even hear it. Second, the heat generated by 400 bodies can already melt chocolate, so we wouldn't feel the heat until some people's hair actually caught fire. For the same reason, 400 people in a small room generates a foul stench and low oxygen levels, which would prevent us from smelling any smoke as well. And if by some miracle (or curse) should we be aware of this, there would be a giant bottleneck. Only 3 exits for 400 frantic persons is not enough. It would be a huge jam, kind of like the bowels of someone stricken with constipation. Several people would probably get trampled as well as we burned.
Another terrifying thing would be if a Mr. X or Mr.Y suddenly decided he had enough and when on a rampage with a weapon. Think of the massacre. Anything from a chainsaw to a machine gun would have enormous potential in such a cramped environment.

All in all, another thing you learn at CSL because such things happen everyday out there and you need to be prepared.

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My sincerest apologies if you were, by extreme misfortune, actually violated, burned and shot all at the same time 180 days a year.