bit of excitment on friday night

[orangerful]

So, I came home from the movie last night to jimithingy standing by the door telling me "we have a bit of a situation here". He gestured to the sliding glass door, which appeared to be covered with ice...then I realized, on closer examination, that it was, in fact, shattered into a billion pieces. But somehow it was still standing. You could hear the glass popping and crackling as it settled into place. He told me he had just run over to the Exxon station behind us to grab some coca cola. When he came back, he slid shut the door and it cracked. The guy tried to call the glass company but they said they couldn't come out until Monday! So we pretty much spent the rest of the night hoping a strong wind wouldn't blow the glass in. At 9:30am this morning, one of the other maintenence guys popped in to tape tarp up over the glass, so if it did decide to shatter, it would all fall outside.

I took some pictures of the door because it has to be seen to be believed. I'll post them when I get home from work today.

edit some pictures of the brokenness

Yes, I'm at work today. The computers are all busy...I am not. And I feel all groggy, because my alarm was set for 10, but the maintenence guy woke us up at 9:30 and I couldn't really go back to sleep for the 10 minutes that were left after he was done putting up the tarp. Then, of course, I felt like I had all this extra time, and I didn't rush while eating my breakfast or taking my shower. In fact, I took so much extra time that I ended up running late! *headdesk*

I just finished up my break for the day. One of the pages was on his break too and he had his laptop going, playing a mix of music. He eventually got into 60s music and them TV theme songs, which I roxxored guessing in the first few seconds. haha. My brain is so full of random crap. I mean, who really needs to be able to identify the Dick Van Dyke show theme in 3 seconds or less?

Comments

[jellibean.livejournal.com]

Whoa.. I want to see pictures of the door. It sounds freaky.. I'm trying to imagine what that would sound like, and it's not pretty. Haha.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

just put some up in my shutterbook account. Hopefully the glass people will show up tomorrow and give us a brand new door. Because the black tarp really makes it dark in here!

I think it looks pretty . . . the door I mean.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm weird but from the angle of the pictures the glass looks pretty. . . all shattered. Okay, I admit it, the beer goggles are on.

Peri

Re: I think it looks pretty . . . the door I mean.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

it actually was kinda pretty...before I knew it was broken haha. When I first walked in I thought perhaps some sort of icing over thing had happened and in my mind I was like "oooh how pretty! the ice is so....wait a minute, it's not that cold". Then the prettiness was replaced with the "OMG that's gonna fall into my living room and get glass everywhere!!!!"