Monday, October 04, 2004
"Do you ever get the feeling that some people are out there purely for your amusement," somebody once asked me before we got drunk and made out.
Yeah sometimes I get that feeling. Yesterday our neighbor had the road blocked off with little orange soccer cones while he chainsawed this huge dying tree that hung out over the street. He kept running out into the street lugging the chainsaw in one arm, waving with the other, yelling like a madman at the cars running over his sad little cones and driving right under this hanging tree. We just stood there waiting for a car to get crushed.
He goes back to sawing and a police car pulls up. The officer gets out, one hand on his holster and walks towards our neighbor who still doesn't see him. He's so wrapped up in chainsawing that the officer practically has to tap him on the shoulder to get his attention. So then he talks to the cop, still holding this chainsaw and he's kind of agitated because of all the cars just ignoring him. It just looked like a scene from a bad slasher film. Then they get it settled, the cop blocks the street and he goes back to sawing. A couple of minutes later the tree comes crashing down into the middle of the street hits and then bounces. That was the best part, to see something that immense actually bounce.
Yeah sometimes I get that feeling. Yesterday our neighbor had the road blocked off with little orange soccer cones while he chainsawed this huge dying tree that hung out over the street. He kept running out into the street lugging the chainsaw in one arm, waving with the other, yelling like a madman at the cars running over his sad little cones and driving right under this hanging tree. We just stood there waiting for a car to get crushed.
He goes back to sawing and a police car pulls up. The officer gets out, one hand on his holster and walks towards our neighbor who still doesn't see him. He's so wrapped up in chainsawing that the officer practically has to tap him on the shoulder to get his attention. So then he talks to the cop, still holding this chainsaw and he's kind of agitated because of all the cars just ignoring him. It just looked like a scene from a bad slasher film. Then they get it settled, the cop blocks the street and he goes back to sawing. A couple of minutes later the tree comes crashing down into the middle of the street hits and then bounces. That was the best part, to see something that immense actually bounce.
