Now That's a Fire!

As you all know, I have been working in the loop for the past two years. And though I have reservations about my job there are definitely no reservations about working downtown in the loop! Fun and peril at the turn of every corner! A parade over here, falling debris over there, Millennium park opening over here, cranes smashing into buildings over there. It just doesn't end down here! Last nights fire definitely brought that fact home. I was at home and had just finished watching a TV show I had taped from Sunday. Decided to check out the Monday night comedy shows and found they had been preempted by footage of some fire downtown! Well, I was highly pissed that I was missing 2 1/2 Men! That Charlie Sheen is so damn cute! But I digress. Anywho, I'm watching this building go up in flames like some towering inferno and think to myself, "That building looks awful familiar, can't quite place it though." I was finally given a clue when they gave the address of the burning building. It is a building I go to all the time for lunch which is directly across the street from my own office building! Crazy!!!

Mind you, last year I distinctly remember leaving work a little late and I was heading off to take care of some banking business. For some reason I looked up. It may have had something to do with the fire engines screaming down Dearborn. That's when I saw the fire raging in the county building! I immediately asked a woman standing next to me, "Isn't that a fire?!" She looks up then looks at me with the most vacuous and apathetic stare as she shrugs her shoulders and continues to walk across the street! I thought I was clueless!! Two tragedies like this in such close vicinity and time. Fortunately this time there were no fatalities. I don't think any of us will have to guess at what will be on the next city council agenda!