Having a Gaviidae

[theycallmeschu]

I saw a couple squads outside the window at work didn't think much of it.  It was a few hours later I wondered why they were STILL there.  So on my lunch break I went outside to check it out a little surprised to see more.  All in all there were 3 squads parked on my block and about 7 more plus an unmarked Chevy Tahoe on the block just north of me.  No cops, lots of cop cars.  Walking through the hustle of lunchtime downtown I heard something about the stores in the building closing and a security guard stopped me from entering.  I asked a few smokers standing outside the doors if they knew anything.  No body knew most of them just noticed the police.  I threw the 13 cents I had in the cup of a homeless man sitting in the cold.  I asked him if he knew what was going on and if he saw anything.  He didn't know either!  I thought he'd been sitting there a while maybe he knew something.  I walked back to work but asked a white haired lady, "What’s all the fuss about?"  She said there was a jumper inside.  A young kid and he didn't look quite 18.  We conversed about life and struggle briefly before parting ways.  The topic came up every so often for the rest of the day.  Before I left work for the day I found out that the S.W.AT. Negotiation Team was called in.  After I left work and went out for the bus I didn't see a single squad car, ambulance, fire truck, swat vehicle, there wasn't any media or anything at all.  All the stores in the building were closed and so was the building, even the skyway.

Today all was normal.  No idea what happed to the boy or why.  Everything just disappeared.