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May 27, 2005
Mildly amusing story which reveals the depths of my dorkiness
This'll be old news to my chat buddies from last night, but I decided this is (un)funny enough that I'd post it where everyone could have a good laugh at my expense, or at least a smirk.
My apartment building has a lovely roof deck, and last summer I had a blast taking pictures from it and going up there to relax. For the past five or so months, the roof door has been locked with one of those double-locks and surrounded with "CAUTION" tape and a sign that said THE DECK IS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!!! or whatever. So I didn't like it, but I got used to it.
Finally, this past week, there were some really beautiful days and I got sick of not being able to take photos from my roof. One evening I came home and decided I was going to get up on the roof somehow, some way.
I jumped out the window and used the fire escape, my camera and tripod slung in a backpack, and took my pictures, then went back down and through the window back to my apt. I did this a total of 3 or so evenings.
Well, last night I was standing there taking pictures of a nice sunset (pics forthcoming) when two of my skirt-wearing, impeccably groomed neighbors casually walked through the door with THE DECK IS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!!! sign on it, and started having a smoke. I just kinda stood there and stared at them.. and then, I not only asked them if they'd come through the door (duhh), I revealed in my shock that I'd climbed the ladder to get to the roof, 'cause I thought it was still locked. They looked at me like I needed treatment. These are girls who looked as if they wouldn't climb a fire escape ladder to save themselves from a fire - but probably spend at least a half hour on the Stairmaster every day.
The guys in chat last night asked me to take pics to illustrate.
http://icine.org/img/fireescape1.jpg
http://icine.org/img/fireescape2.jpg
Posted by astor at May 27, 2005 04:52 PM
Comments
Bwahahahaha! You never even touched the handle on the door or anything? That's too funny.
Posted by: Lasse at July 28, 2005 04:39 PM