The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: danger

  • That’ll Be Quite Enough Adrenaline for Me, Thank You

    That’ll Be Quite Enough Adrenaline for Me, Thank You

    Nothin’ to see here?

  • Penny-Farthings: Transportational Death Traps

    Some had no brakes at all. (What could possibly go wrong?)

  • What Do You Do?

    All of the above? Then I’m guessing you’re a woman.

  • Working a Tropical Storm

    We’ve had our fair share of natural disasters this year. But when you pair that with an increasing disregard for workers, you get a toxic combination. People are getting fired for having to mandatorily evacuate and therefore being unable to show up for work. People have been forced to work in extremely unsafe situations, leaving…

  • Suspicious Package

    I was walking to the south end of my bridge to do some much-needed maintenance when I came upon a large shopping bag, apparently stuffed full of clothing. It was right in the middle of the sidewalk and no one was in sight. I wasn’t about to go rooting around in this bag. After all,…

  • Surviving Predation

    When I think of the many times as a child and young adult that I was preyed upon by some sick person, it makes me wonder how anyone survives to adulthood. If I weren’t touched inappropriately, then inappropriate things were said to me, or someone tried to talk me into doing something that I didn’t…

  • Alternate Realities

    As a bridgetender I get ample opportunity to observe people. I sit up here in my not-exactly-ivory tower, watching them come and go. Most of them don’t even know I exist. That can be lonely, but it also gives me a certain amount of power, and it’s power that I haven’t earned, so I’ve never…

  • Potentially Hazardous

    If I were a package, the post office would refuse to mail me. I should be encased head to toe in bubble wrap and surrounded by bright yellow caution tape. Seriously. I’m a danger to myself. As if it weren’t bad enough that I have a brace on my arm due to a recent bad…

  • When Practical Jokes Go Too Far

    Every once in a while it’s fun to play a practical joke, or even to be on the receiving end of one. It can mean that you’re well liked. But practical jokes make me nervous because it is so easy to cross the line into cruelty or danger. This is why I have never liked…

  • Darkness Revealed

    When I drive to work at night it’s a completely different experience than when I work a day shift. Even the nuclear power plant, normally a blight upon the landscape, looks beautiful. It is all lit up and floating in a sea of blackness like a nighttime cruise heading for the Bahamas. The traffic flow…