It Takes Two

On our way to the restaurant for the rehersal dinner, Lib and I parked in a parking garage in Newport, Kentucky and decided to take the stairs up to the ground level instead of the elevator, and as I was about to press the bar on the door, Lib made an indistinct warning noise because she thought the door was an emergency exit; I was startled and annoyed, but the door did say, "Push for 15 seconds. Alarm will sound. Door will open," which made no sense, but we assumed that, for some reason, maybe security concerns, they did not leave the doors unlocked, but must unlock them for people coming in and out, which still didn't make sense, but by this time we were just confused. We pushed the door, it buzzed, and we waited fifteen seconds...nothing. We were more confused. Lib held down the bar for about ten seconds, a little red light started flashing faster, and Lib let go, but the buzzing noise continued, and the door unlocked. To the left of the door was a sign that read, "Emergency Exit" with a little picture of a person escalating a stairwell, and realizing we had just set off the alarm, we opened the door and bolted up the stairwell with the emergency alarm resonating through the parking garage, but halfway, Lib's conscience got the best of her, and she decided, much to my further annoyance, that we should tell someone, so we decended the staircase and walked all the way back to the booth by the gate and told the attendant, who broke out in wild laughter and told us she would take care of it. We took the elevator after that.