Monday, November 06, 2006

Rain Rain Rain Rainy Darkness

Life: Well its raining again here in Seattle. Its been raining a lot. Its starting to flood out along the riverbanks, as it does every year this time of year. Its also dark. As I stare out my window, I see dark clouds hanging over the city, unyielding rain, cars rumbling by with their head lights on, and the sound of pools of water shooshed away momentarily by each passing car. Its that time of year when the weather drives people to jump off the Aurora bridge. Which reminds me, the other day a friend of mine told me a bizarre, sad, and macabre story.

He has a little boat that he tools around Lake Union with. He was under the Aurora bridge, relaxing, when he heard a huge explosion only a few feet away from him. Startled, he scanned around, and saw a number of people gathering on the shore, all crouching and pointing next to him. He looked over, and saw a big bloated woman. A police boat showed up, the two of them hauled the woman's body on board. The cop informed him that this is a known phenomenon here in suicidal Seattle. An unsettling tidbit of knowledge imparted to my friend by the policeman: apparently women always jump into the water, whereas men always jump onto the land.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have you seen the online weather forecast? Someone has a sense of humor. (I posted in my own blog; follow the link ...)

Anonymous said...

I live in a very cold climate so rain here is not depressing because it is a sign of temeperatures being above freezing!

Anonymous said...

You call it "Rain Rain Rain Rainy Darkeness", I call it "Rainy, Rain, Rain. Dark."

Either way, it was much nicer this morning.

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