Been an unusually loud few hours. Our landlord had the heat turned off over the weekend (geez) but it was back on last night and kicking the pipes harder than I’ve heard so far this year. Bang bang bang bang bang, the radiators were rattling and all the pipes leading to it. Bang bang bang bang bang all night long.
And now for the past 20 (maybe longer) minutes there’s been a helicopter buzzing us. Pulse pulse pulse go the blades. Must be longer than that because I kept expecting it go away and finally I went to the front window and stood there for a long while waiting for it to pass into sight, so I could see what kind of chopper it was. Dark dark dark green-black with no visible markings that I could see anyway. Wasn’t a news helicopter. Flying just right above the level of the buildings and down to tree top level on the street below us. So low that as it circled slow slowly around again it dropped down below the next block of buildings (which are slightly below us on a hill) and out of view. That’s low for a helicopter in the city.
Wait…I think it’s gone. Yes, it does seem to be. Good. It was annoying.
Oh, never mind, it’s back.
What was I going to write about?
Now it’s gone.
The helicopter.
Not what I was going to write about.
But now that the helicopter is gone and I’ve stopped puzzling over it I’m called elsewhere and unable to write about what I was going to write about.
The why of the helicopter will be one of those unsolved mysteries. No, not as in woooo-woooo mysteries. Just one of those annoying things where you never get to know why. Someone knows why it was buzzing these buildings for so long but I never will.
Life’s like that.
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