There's a cab IN my building

2003-04-09 - 4:14 p.m.

I�m sitting here at the office minding my own business and all of the sudden the building alarm goes off. I hate those stupid alarms. They give me nightmares. I stay put, waiting for security to announce it was a false alarm, but instead they just say to disregard it because �the problem is not in the building.� That�s an outright lie. The problem was a cab, a cab inside the building. Thankfully, the part of the building it went into has been empty for as long as I can remember�I only started working here in September. So there�s a mini-media zoo outside right now. And for a while everyone in this office was in a tiffy. Funny how it is the elderly people in the office who asked "What's the cab drivers nationality?" That didn't even occur to me. My first concern was the building structure. It's funny how little things like that jump at you.

Chou-Chou is threatening to put me in a hotel when I come visit her, she thinks I�m jinxed or something. I keep trying to tell her its only WORK related buildings that I have an issue with. My first day working in downtown Manhattan was 9/11. Then we decided to move someplace safer, but it was a CBS building, right around anthrax time. And now when I think I�m above all the hustle a cab decides to park inside my office building. I think I�ll spare my father that one. It might be a little much for him.