the monster at the end of this post

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 way