Thursday, November 04, 2004

Top of the world!


Thanks to my sometimes-annoying neighbor T's prodding and nagging, today I did something I have not done since I was a little girl: climb onto my building's roof, the absolute top of the world for me since you can see for miles in either direction and miles out to sea once you're up there. It started when a friend asked if I could give him my LAN cable which was no longer in use. I happened to mention this to T, who thereafter began pestering me to come on upstairs with him to get both our old cables, which should both be up there. Once upstairs, it turned out that the cable guy, having become severely ticked off due to T's antics, had severed and removed the cable that T had paid for during installation that legally belonged to T. This pissed T off, and he vowed revenge. Having found a decent length wire coming into our building's switch from another building, T suggested we get rip-off revenge, i.e. rip off cable guy for ripping him off first. Since, in essence, it was T's funeral should we have gotten caught, I agreed. First, we removed my cable and threw it down so that I could rein it in from my balcony. Then we set about freeing what was now, with poetic (justice) license, we referred to as 'T's cable'.

This involved climbing higher than I had in years (since T is afraid of heights and could not bear to go unless I showed him how to first) and freeing the cable from its trappings, then coming back down. Now you'd think that going up would be a tougher challenge than coming back down, but (surprise!) it isn't. The trick is that you're basically trusting your weight on gravity and your sense of where the tricky to find yet solid bit of plumbing that you can put your entire weight on is. Miss it and you could meet with a nasty accident. (Refer to photo for T gingerly finding his way down) All went well and, mission accomplished, we were back on solid ground (as solid ground as a roof can be) and gleefully taking our acquired prizes back downstairs. Hey, it's one way to pass the time till Iftaar. =)

Misha at Thursday, November 04, 2004

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