Falling Irony
Wednesday, 4. April 2007, 05:42:36
This was a blog I wrote a little over 2 years ago. I found it just now, and decided to share this delightful story with you, unedited, as it originally existed, except that I have added a picture of the "Blue Cross Building"
March 2005
So this morning, walking up Market street to my building was the windiest day so far, practically tore my pants off. and as im walking i have my head tucked down, like every other poor sap with the exception tthat mine wasnt hovering over some form of hot grandemochatallgarbachino latte. so with no hot cup of caffeine warming my face there was nothing encouraging me to walk face down like everyone else. i lifted my head at times to make sure i wasnt going to get hit by a car and to make sure i wasnt the ass who was preventing people from wwalking as fast as they needed to to get where they were going. so this one time as i was letting the furious march wind uppercut my chin and travel down my collar, freezing me from the inside out i saw this thing. it was huge. from what i could tell, as it was falling off of the blue cross building, it was a sheet of ice no smaller than an old volkswagon beetle. as it made its way down the fifty some floors like a guilitine blade, or an old beetle driving down the side of a building. ill be honest i got really scared, to the point where i actually thought this sentence in my head: "You have to save these people!" as if i could. it was coming so fast i realized it was already too late and i had to save myself and jsut as i parted my lips to yell out "ICE!!" the sheet was thrown furiously awway from the building (still about 5 floors up) caught in the wind, and came down at a 45 degree angle and exploded itself just before hitting the building across the street effectively cascading about a hundred smaller ice shurikens against the side of the building and to the sidwalk below. i closed my mouth after the whisper trickled out: "...ice.."
i was standing there, as people passed me on both sides and in both directions by still nose down in thier suicidechinos completely oblivious to what just could have, and wwhat jsut did happen. im not trying to say anything bad about these people for not knowing, but it would have been nice (for survivals sake) if a few of them were in my shoes, also ready to warn others. i looked around for a few seconds to see if there was even a few who had noticed the last part at least. nothing.
i decided to get on my way when i realizzed that by standing there i was the ass who was preventing people from walking as fast as they needed to to get where they were going.
yay extreme irony..
March 2005
So this morning, walking up Market street to my building was the windiest day so far, practically tore my pants off. and as im walking i have my head tucked down, like every other poor sap with the exception tthat mine wasnt hovering over some form of hot grandemochatallgarbachino latte. so with no hot cup of caffeine warming my face there was nothing encouraging me to walk face down like everyone else. i lifted my head at times to make sure i wasnt going to get hit by a car and to make sure i wasnt the ass who was preventing people from wwalking as fast as they needed to to get where they were going. so this one time as i was letting the furious march wind uppercut my chin and travel down my collar, freezing me from the inside out i saw this thing. it was huge. from what i could tell, as it was falling off of the blue cross building, it was a sheet of ice no smaller than an old volkswagon beetle. as it made its way down the fifty some floors like a guilitine blade, or an old beetle driving down the side of a building. ill be honest i got really scared, to the point where i actually thought this sentence in my head: "You have to save these people!" as if i could. it was coming so fast i realized it was already too late and i had to save myself and jsut as i parted my lips to yell out "ICE!!" the sheet was thrown furiously awway from the building (still about 5 floors up) caught in the wind, and came down at a 45 degree angle and exploded itself just before hitting the building across the street effectively cascading about a hundred smaller ice shurikens against the side of the building and to the sidwalk below. i closed my mouth after the whisper trickled out: "...ice.."i was standing there, as people passed me on both sides and in both directions by still nose down in thier suicidechinos completely oblivious to what just could have, and wwhat jsut did happen. im not trying to say anything bad about these people for not knowing, but it would have been nice (for survivals sake) if a few of them were in my shoes, also ready to warn others. i looked around for a few seconds to see if there was even a few who had noticed the last part at least. nothing.
i decided to get on my way when i realizzed that by standing there i was the ass who was preventing people from walking as fast as they needed to to get where they were going.
yay extreme irony..
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G-off # 4. April 2007, 18:11
I think the shock of nearly seeing people die makes up for preventing them from getting to their destination.
Èwin # 1. May 2007, 02:59
CaptainSeagull # 24. August 2007, 09:12