the monster at the end of this post
Posted on | 2 years, 10 months ago, in the late afternoon | 13 Comments
Yesterday I looked out the window and saw this, on the street below.
Okay. To be completely honest, what I saw was this same scene with two electricians staring into the hole like they’d just put in a quarter and were waiting for the show to start. When I went downstairs to ask about it, they shrugged and said that they’d reported the situation to the city. So I shrugged too.
Then one of them asked, “Is that your salt?” And I was like, “No.” So we all shrugged again and we went our separate ways, none the wiser for the encounter.
Last night, a WDOT truck actually came out to investigate. By which I mean, “Two dudes in orange vests hung around poking at the box of salt with a stick, acting like they thought it might be stuffed with used hypodermic needles or something … and then they tried to fill up the hole with water.”
After about twenty minutes they gave up, turned off the water, rolled the hose back up, closed up the truck, and left. I don’t know what that was supposed to accomplish; but I guess the hole looks a little cleaner now. Maybe. So if their job was to “clean out that hole or at least make it bigger” then they did a decent job. I give them an “E” for “Effort.”
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April 9th, 2009 @ 6:06 pm
oy! I can’t believe they didn’t do anything about it yet!
April 9th, 2009 @ 6:13 pm
Is Pennywise hanging out down there? I know you are on the wrong coast, but I could see down there causing trouble.
April 9th, 2009 @ 6:15 pm
The monster is a member of the Slug family. This seems rather logical, for the Pacific Northwest. Someone was going to attack it by pouring the box of salt on it to see if it would dissolve, but the monster got them before they had a chance. Buy 2 bottles of beer, one good, and one cheap. Open the cheap one, pour it into the hole, and run like hell. Watch from a safe distance while drinking the Beer of Quality.
April 9th, 2009 @ 7:40 pm
I just thank goodness that someone has at last made a KOSHER sinkhole.
April 9th, 2009 @ 7:41 pm
Dude, there are totally rotters down there.
April 9th, 2009 @ 7:44 pm
You people are made of lulz — especially Wheaton, because he knows damn good and well I can’t draw a rotter :)
April 9th, 2009 @ 7:53 pm
I laughed, I cried, I told the dog to stay near.
April 9th, 2009 @ 8:43 pm
Kosher sinkholes at Passover, this is a very good monster.
April 9th, 2009 @ 8:53 pm
Well, salt is a well-known ingredient for banishments and protection. So kosher salt must be for Jewish monsters to be banished. Maybe you have a baby Ziz nesting down there.
In any case, the salt is perplexing, as is the pouring on of water. All they were doing is washing out more road under the hole.
April 9th, 2009 @ 9:37 pm
Having attempted purification with salt and water, the next step is obviously smudging it with sage and then setting it on fire.
April 10th, 2009 @ 8:32 am
Meanwhile, Sam and Dean are now soaked to the skin and covered with rubble.
April 10th, 2009 @ 4:58 pm
And because the authorities were on to them, Sam and Dean left in a hurry forgetting their salt.
April 10th, 2009 @ 10:44 pm
Duh! It’s the M-113 creature from TOS: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/M-113_creature