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LESSON #3: SPARE KEYS

You would think as an escape room business we would have a million keys to carry around and combinations to remember … And you would be correct, however we have found ourselves in some interesting situations as well.

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LESSON #2: FIRE ALARMS

Special thanks to Kingston Fire and Rescue for saving us during a ridiculously embarrassing moment. Remember kids, smoke machines can set off fire alarms.

This is just a quick lesson. Don’t run smoke machines indoors without ventilation. It may or may not set off a fire alarm … where an entire historic national site has to evacuate.

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ONE VERY GOOD REASON EVERYONE SHOULD VOTE

I am all too familiar with not wanting to vote and have heard all of these excuses from my friends and family. However it is a destructive failure of imagination to believe that just because you will probably never cast the deciding ballot in an election or single handily shape the course of Canadian politics, that your vote does not matter.

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RANT OF THE DAY: DEMANDING RESPECT

In June, we had the pleasure of meeting Hollie Pratt Campbell, the editor of the Kingston Heritage and Frontenac Gazette newspapers. She wanted to take a picture of us for an article she was writing about us, but at the time we were extremely scared of putting our faces to our business. We have ccontinuously faced a lot discrimination, due to our age (and sometimes our gender). The way we’ve combated this… is by demanding respect.

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LESSON #1: PAINT WITH PRIMER

So, you’ve decided to start a business. Money is tight. You begin to renovate a space and look at different paint shades. You think, “HEY! Why get paint with primer? It’s more money! Let’s save money and not get the paint with primer!” Big, big mistake. Let me tell you why.

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