My Morning Surprise
By snake911 1 Comments
Earlier this week, I was walking over to my car so I can go to work. As I was walking towards it, I noticed that the windows looked pretty dirty. Seeing that I washed my car just the other day, I was upset. I wash my car primarily to clean the windows. In the morning, I have to drive in the direction of the sunrise, and in the afternoon I have to drive in the direction of the sunset. So, if there was even a bit of dirt on the windshield, it would be very difficult to see through it. I also try to not use the windshield cleaner/windshield wipers so that I can prevent smearing the dirt and making it 100% worser. I asked myself: “Who would do this?” Did someone use a leaf-blower near by and kicked up some dust/dirt onto my car? Did a pickup truck pass by with a pile of dusty stuff in the back and as it passed by my car it deposited a good helping of dirt onto it? Well, upon closer inspection I noticed something very interesting. It wasn’t dirt, it was ash!
Yes people, ash! This took me totally by surprise. But I shouldn’t have been. If you have not heard yet, this week, Southern California is practically on fire. However, I live at least 30 miles from where the fires are at, so I thought I wouldn’t see any physical indication of the fires, except for the very hazy skies that have been looming over socal for the last few days. When I realized it was ash and I was surprised by myself noticing that it was ash, I immediately thought of a particular line that Travis Grady said in the game Silent Hill: Origins. Travis, after almost hitting a person with his big rig during his stormy night commute through the town of Silent Hill, he stepped out of his semi to see if the person was alright. As soon as he got out, the weather changed and it got foggy and a light dusting of snow started to cover the region. After the weather changed, he saw a glimpse of a person running down the street. After running some distance down the road, he approached a house and noticed that it was on fire. When he noticed that the house was covered in flames, he said: “That wasn’t snow, it was ash!”
Well, that’s what I thought he said. Guess I was wrong. My memory has failed me yet again.