PlatKat.com: More on the Roof

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

More on the Roof

Although the views from my roof are great (see previous post), the roof itself is kind of sad and desolate. Some roofs (rooves!) have little gardens on them, or at least some brickwork and patio furniture. Not mine. It has a weird insulation-like flooring, and there are a bunch of things on the roof that are probably preventing management from even thinking about building a patio.

The elevator control room is up there, as well as some other little building that takes up a considerable amount of the roof's footprint. There is also a scattered bunch of large silver things that probably do something very important (besides make a lot of noise)... I'll try to furnish a picture when I have daylight again.

In one corner, there's a huge antennae that looks like it came from the 80s. Leaning against the elevator control room is a cracked full-length mirror, accompanied by a large orange bucket and a container of soap. Kind of makes you wonder what kind of kinky stuff goes on when I'm not there.

Although I've never seen anyone up there, I know someone has used the roof. Someone who drinks Miller Lite and smokes a Marlboro Lights, maybe 100s. If I knew people here, I would invite them to drink and smoke on my roof. I'm very surprised, I'll daresay shocked, that with enough residents to fill 32 floors (minus floor 13, which my building doesn't have), which is so many people that I have almost never seen the same person twice in my daily comings and goings, NO ONE from this building uses the roof EVER.

The most curious thing of all though, is that there are weeds growing in the cracks of that strange insulation material. Although not heavily trafficked by people, somehow a few seedlings managed to make their way up 32 stories to take root in the very infertile roof-flooring.

posted by platkat @ 8:25 PM