Wednesday, January 18, 2006

They came from nowhere (and everywhere)

We had a blackout this afternoon at work. At first we thought it was just our building as there are some major renovations happening at the moment, but upon further investigation we discovered that it was the whole area (except the building just next to us. weird).

Anyway, it was at 3pm and noone knew how long it would last. These things are usually 5 minutes or several hours from my experience. I wanted to show a document (on paper!) to my colleague so we went outside so we could see. It was the most bizzare sight. Everyone was leaving their offices and coming outside, to either get a coffee (from the one building with power) to wait it out, or to go home. There were so many people wandering around without purpose, and cars all driving away.

It reminded me of the Simpsons episode when Itchy and Scratchy became "lame" and suddenly all the kids went outside to play.

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