Man, disaster follows me.* Oh, okay, nothing happened to me, but earlier this evening I heard this ruckus outside my apartment building: sirens sirens sirens! I stepped outside and smelled smoke, and knew something was up. And now there are four or five fire trucks and an ambulance parked on the street in front of the complex, which my sliding glass door happens to face. There are three more fire trucks parked down by the duck pond on the other side of the complex from me — and a building which still had smoke coming from it. (Yes, I walked over there — I was bored.) It isn’t near me, but I’m sure glad I bought that renter’s insurance policy. I’ll bet you some college kid dropped his bong.
*Last year one of the buildings in the apartment complex I used to live in was gutted by fire. And the year before that the condos across from the apartment I lived in in Winter Park was discovered to be harboring a meth lab, which brought out the hazmat trucks. I swear, it has nothing to do with the pact I made with Satan…
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June 7th, 2008 at 6:10 am
I don’t know what you mean either.
June 7th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Joe, you need to make on-topic comments as well as comments to the relative posts or I’ll start deleting.
June 8th, 2008 at 6:12 am
I wanted to make an on topic link to the prior post(he said submissively) but couldn’t figure out how. I tried to be a smart ass a la blair and got threatened with the whip. If you delete me I will consider it a badge of hono(u)r. Hurt me.
June 8th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Well, the post title is a link to the post. I don’t have any linking buttons set up for this template (perhaps they will be added in the future) — there are directions on how to make a link using html tags here. (That site is useful for all other tags. For the record, this site accepts basic formatting links — bold, italics, underline — but nothing too fancy, and you can’t use the “img src” tag, so no pictures.)
June 8th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Wouldn’t the “water” put it out… ah, nevermind. ’twas probably a roach in the sofa.