I See Dead People

I woke way early this morning and knew I was not going to get back to any meaningful sleep for the rest of the night and finally drug my butt out of bed to begin my day at 4:30 just because I could not stay in bed any longer. I was a half hour ahead of my usual schedule when I left the house heading up to State street and my bus stop. Right now being a half hour early is not so bad—the place where I catch my morning bus is literally infested with wifi hot zones, Beans and Brew, Zions Bank even Fed Ex has an office on my corner and they were offering wifi. I connected and read my email and caught up on the news. It is really too bad that Utah Transit Authority does not offer a wifi connection on their train services so I ended up reading my e-book and trying to stay awake.

I have to travel a block or so to get to my office. I travel from the downtown train station cut through part of block then travel to the corner and cross the street to my office. This morning when I emerged from the alley I noticed fire engines and police cars parked in front of the Art Space apartments. Now emergency vehicles parked in front of this building at this time of the morning maybe unexpected but, really not that unusual what was unusual about a half a block down from the fire engine was a corpse covered with a white sheet-just like on TV. There were cops standing an squatting around waiting for coffee and possibly doughnuts and folk waking by just like Tuesday morning—the scene was surreal. I was across the street behind a lamp pole trying to get a decent image of corpse and not be seen as a rubber necking, camera toting opportunist jerk taking images of the newly dead. I was using my cell phone and got a couple images the best I cropped and uploaded. Not the best but you get the idea—nothing is ever dull down town.