[Ghoulish Delight]

Today's craziness was bookended by bizzaro antics in our complex's "street" (the road that runs around the inside perimeter of the complex for garage and parking stall access).

First, on my way out the door to work I hit my garage door opener....*thwack*...There's some utility crew digging up the pavement and they've parked one of their pickups in front of my garage. Don't think they even noticed it happened. I had to go out and get their attention. They promptly moved their truck out of the way. Except they moved the one that was not in front of my garage, despite me saying "garage" twice and pointing directly at the truck I was talking about. It's moments like these I really appreciate my boss's lax eye when it comes to precise arrival time).

Anyway, now when I got home, I turned onto our stretch of that same road and I see a giant ass moving truck. Full on Enterprise tractor trailer. Why anyone would need a tractor trailer to move into this place is beyond me. But hey, whatever, it wasn't in front of my garage and there was room on one side to pass. I'll just let that dude pass first...that dude right there who's stopping...right next to the trailer, forming a now 3-vehicle wide (there was already someone parked on the other side) road block, and giving me the "one second" sign.

Dude proceeds to challenge the very fabric of space and time with his definition of "1 second" as he opens his trunk, removes a box and disappears inside his condo's back gate. Only to return moments later...and produce a second box, proceeded by an altogether presumptuous raising of his index finger, indicating that, yes, he knew full well that his initial "one second" was an outright lie and oh by the way, here's another one. Surely he meant it the second time!

Yeah, I wasn't going to wait to find out, I backed out to drive the 1/4 mile lap around the other way. Sure enough before I finished turning around I spotted him reaching for box #3. But whatever, a 30 second delay reaching my garage isn't the end of the world. And hey, if I translate into that dude's definition of a second, it'd be somewhere around 1.7 nanosecons. Who can get upset about 1.7 nanoseconds?

Something felt very offkilter today.