Fog, Crane, Parking, and the Corner

 Headed into work 

Tuesday, it was really

foggy.

Check out the fog 

hiding part of the building.

Tennessee State Bird~

the crane!

Yep, sort of look alike.

Tall, skinny and 

the spike on top!!

LOL....sorry,

could not help it.

If I get up in the morning, 

and move my rear, and

I get to work before 7am,

I can park across from my 

bldg in the state parking.

If I wait but I get there

around 11:30am, I can 

park there also.

However, if I don't make

it at any of those times I 

have to park two blocks

away in that state parking lot.

But then I have to walk 

up the hill.

Tuesday the lot was almost filled, like

before COVID. 

When you park in these big

lots in a different spot each time,

you tend to get confused and

forget where your car is. 

To prevent that I started parking 

in front of the ONLY

telephone pole in the lot.

That way I always know where

I am.

I will never forget the first few

days my old boss in printing

started working with us.

I walked down to the lot,

to see her standing at the top

of the steps (right at that

yellow rail) and looking for 

her car. I laughed as I went

by and said, "forgot where you parked"?

Back in those days I 

kept a US flag attached to my

antenna so I always found

my car then. That was before

I got wise and found the pole!!

The corner of 5th and 

Charlotte, this is where I 

stood one day and watched

President Jimmy Carter ride

down Charlotte in a 

convertible. 

A LONG TIME AGO!

That building you see in the

pic is the Andrew Jackson 

bldg. I went to work

there in 78 in the 

printing division.  

Years later, I stood on that

same corner and looked

up to the roof of the

bldg across the street to see

National Guard with their 

guns standing watch...

that was after 9/11.

You know it is strange, I drive

up that way to the building I

work in now but today is 

the first time I thought of

those two events. 

CRAZY.

Pam