A note from David: Today we have a very special treat, a guest blog from none other than quoteboard leader Gina!
Oh holy crap, today i had my first “flashback from ‘nam” here at the Fed.
Or i should say “flashback from the Sears Tower post-911″.
Window washers….
Here at the Fed, they are real people hanging on ropes with industrial
sized toilet plunger looking things on their hands. Today is the first
time i have seen them….
I sit across from a window, where i do not look directly at it, but can see
out of it with my She-Ra like peripheral vision.
Today i am nicely focusing on some Security Operating Procedure that i have put off for a few weeks and drinking some coffee..
WHEN OUT OF NOWHERE SPIDEY COMES BUSTING DOWN ON THE WINDOW! he has one ghetto-a** looking rope and giant toilet plugger hands!!!!!!!!!!
I jumped about six feet, let out a grunt scream/yelp, snorted coffee into
my nose and about peed myself. And, i am embarrassed to say, that i
thought “uni-bomber” immediately. Why or HOW “uni-bomber”, I am not sure, and i don’t know if it is safe to analyze my thought process… But terror is terror and that is all i have to say about that.
So as the lady that sits behind me looks at me like i have 3 green heads
and a polka-dotted antenna, she says “it is a window washer”.
Me: “yea, i know”
Lady: “have you never seen one before”
Me: “yea”
And that is when i realize, no.. no Spidey has never lunged himself at the
window near me before….
a.) Dave and I used to watch in horror and shock as the spideys across the way dangled from their crack coated rope (why else would one chose to do that?) in the winter months to wash windows….
b.) The Sears Tower had a machine that washed windows… that same machine that post 911 sent the entire Sears Tower building running down the stairs into the streets to save themselves.
c.) Aon doesn’t clean anything.. let alone a window. they have “please
don’t pee in the stairs” signs posted in the parking garage.
So no, this was a new experience… and i thought all of you needed to share in it.
And a good take away is: window washers are scary scary things…
