stick that landing
I think I might be bad luck today.
Listen: Emily Haines, “Doctor Blind”
On my way down to the office for a quick meeting this morning, an old lady had a mishap on my bus. Yes, she decided that her seat wasn’t very good, and stood to move to another closer to the front of the bus… just as the driver took a turn. Head over heels she went, rolling and rolling. One of the floor-mounted handrails helped break her fall. And perhaps her head, too.
Fortunately, she was able to get up a couple minutes later, and I wasn’t too late for my appointment. A1 Great!
The short meeting became a virus-solving session, with the malware in question bearing the Golden Palace name, as identified by Spybot S&D. (Thank god for S&D.) Mind you, this was not the casino software itself – just a piece of junk trying to pass itself off as a helper application, downloading other garbage in the meantime. Took a couple hours to finally isolate and destroy the thing, and the irony of my current position of having to fix a computer infected by electronic filth from the very company I used to work for so many years ago was not lost on this internet repairman.
All of this excitement meant that I had to dull my day a little bit, so I stopped at Billings Bridge for lunch. Just as I sat down in the food court, I heard a sort of brittle splat – yep, another senior down, this time at the top of the escalators there. She was quite a bit older than the bus body bowling lady from earlier in the day, and her collapse was pretty shocking – I mean, she made a noise hitting the tile. To mention nothing of all of the other people coming up the escalator who suddenly had to hurdle a dead woman on dismount.
OK, so she wasn’t dead, but she was definitely shaken up. A half-dozen of us kind of crowded around a bit until she collected her wits, and then off she went, shuffling away to do whatever it is really old people do. Go to Billings Bridge, I guess.
I’m going to stay home the rest of the night. I don’t want to ruin anyone else’s April four, should be safe in the basement here.