now THAT'S interesting

So I was walking over to the mall to get some lunch the other day, which entails crossing a pedestrian access bridge between my office and the mall. And this signage was taped to the railing of the bridge:

It seemed unlikely to me that there'd been a rash of lemming-like "shopper-over-the-rail" suicides to necessitate a warning like this. (I looked over the side to be sure, though - no bodies, but it is a long drop.)

Well, being an on-my-feet-thinker, I quickly surmised that maybe some bridge painting had been going on. (A sniff of the air and a quick touch to the green railing confirmed this was true.)

So... I guess when you're out of WET PAINT signs you make do with what you have.

Interesting? Sure, a little.

But it pales when placed next to the other thing I witnessed, just a day later.

Walked into the office break room to get myself a soda (diet pepsi - I love the burn). As the drink was dispensing, I happened to glance out my 6th floor window to the 2nd floor patio of the building across the street:

Here's what was happening over there....

Three men and a woman come through a door to the left. One of the men is a little person. Another of the men is carrying a child-sized mouse costume - furry little mouse body, wearing a red track suit complete with paws and tail, and an oversized cartoon mouse head. The woman is holding a video camera.

The man with the suit lays it out on the ground in a prone position.

The little man removes his shirt, lays down on his belly in front of the suit, and scoots backward into the suit. Man number three (who - up to now - has done nothing), places the oversized cartoon mouse head onto the little man in the suit.

At this point, the woman begins filming. The little man (still lying on his belly) reaches up, grabs the mouse head, and throws it aside. He then claws his way forward out of the suit, stands up, and screams while shaking his fist toward the sky.

This entire scenario is repeated seven or eight times. Then they shoot some footage of the bare-chested little man, sans mouse suit, running around with the mouse head on while flailing his arms above his head.

Then the little man puts his shirt back on, mouse-holder man picks up the suit and they all walk back into the building through the same door they'd come out of.

Now THAT'S interesting.

der doktor

so I went to the doctor again and he looked through a microscope while he pushed a teeny tiny metal thing into my ear and he said this is gonna hurt but i won't keep the pressure on for long just push and release, push and release he said. but i'll tell you it hurt like the dickens - not that i even know what a dickens is, but i've heard people say that so i guess dickens must hurt pretty bad since this guy is pushing on my EARDRUM with a metal stick and i am telling you right now there are some things that are meant to never ever be touched and the EARDRUM is one of them because i thought my head was going to blow up like a bomb. but then he stopped and said shit (he's a swearing doctor) i think i might have screwed up by taking that tube out (he's also an honest doctor) - he means the tube he'd just popped out of my eardrum a few minutes ago just before he got that metal stick out - and i said that's not very comforting and he shrugged and said you might have a bone infection in your mastoid process and i said yeah so what do we do about that? and he said try to clear it up with steroids and antibiotics or mastoid surgery if that doesn't work and i thought maybe i'll just ask what that is another time because it sounds a little more invasive than just a couple of tubes in the eardrum and besides i feel sick and have a WHOPPING HEADACHE from the metal stick and i have to come back in a week anyway.