The Last 60 Seconds of Hide-and-Seek in a Midnight Hospital!! 1

This happened when I was 22. During my break, I was working night security for a temp agency to save up some spending money. One day, the dispatch manager called me over quietly. It was an old hospital on the outskirts of Oneida County, New York. Since it was in a rural area, they had trouble finding applicants, so he asked me if I could watch over the building for just three days, from 10 PM to 6 AM. He said they'd pay me triple my usual daily wage. There was absolutely no reason to refuse. I figured it was a super easy gig, just killing time in a rundown hospital with nothing to guard. So, on Thursday night around 9:30 PM, I drove up to the red brick building. As I opened the lobby glass door and stepped inside, the receptionist sitting at the counter greeted me with an unusually wide smile. "You must be Jake, right?" she said. "We've been expecting you." She looked up my name on the screen, then skillfully handed me a document clipped to a clipboard and a pen. "It's just a timesheet, please sign at the bottom!" It looked like a standard form I'd seen anywhere, so without much thought, I took the pen.