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Go to the nearest window. Look out for a full minute. Write about what you saw.
To whom it may concern,
I’m writing to voice my complaint about today’s Daily Prompt, uh, prompt. I find it rather presumptuous to assume that everybody who participates in the postaday challenge has a window through which they can look. I work in a server room. I am encaged in a windowless area, breathing manufactured air, lit by flourescent bulbs. Nothing is real in here except for boredom.
A stunning replica of what I’m looking at currently.
On the improbable chance that a window may have sprouted somewhere within these confines I glanced around the room. Much to my chagrin, there still was no window. Even were there windows in this room, they would merely look into other rooms.
Another room? How exciting! Yay!!!
You want to know what I saw instead of some picturesque view through my phantom window? Filthy Walls. Servers. Laptops. Desktops. Dirty floors. Disgruntled coworkers. Dust-covered shelves. Boxes filled with peripheral equipment. People who desperately need to shave, including myself. How dreadful. I hate shaving.
But wait, I can glance ever so slightly to the right and see something that makes my heart melt. Pictures. Pictures of my children. Pictures of Baby A, Baby B, and Baby C together. Pictures taken by a professional photographer of all of my children. A sketched picture of all of my children from when the twin’s grandmother took them all to Chuck E. Cheese’s right before Christmas. Baby C’s newborn picture.
Windows? I don’t need no stinkin’ windows.
Besides, Windows™ sucks.
What about you, dearest reader? Are you fortunate enough to have a window through which you can peer? What do you see? Rub it in, why don’t you?
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Where is my picture? I thought for sure my picture would be up there too!!
Eh? What picture?
Wow…you must be working hard. I thought there would be some sarcastic remark about your work not allowing pictures of trolls…or something along those lines!!
Put the keyboard down……back away…..
Now why would I refer to you as a troll? I’m all about joking, but that’s just mean. I don’t even know how tall you are.
There you are, Daddy!! That’s what I was waiting for!! LOL
*bows*
A man is peeing outside mine. You aren’t missing anything
That’s debatable. That is probably better than these dusty shelves and grumpy old men.
Your grumpy old men aren’t peeing, so that’s good right?
Well, they theoretically could be, unless they tell me I’ll never know. Unless their depends get full. Then the inevitable stench follows. Ugh…
Haha! Poor you. That helmet of yours doesn’t keep out the stench, huh? Blast them with your laser guns!
It has an air filter, but I’m not allowed to wear my helmet at work.
Darn
I know…
Through the mist and water drops on the inside of my window, I see the side of an ginormous fifth-wheel travel trailer. Their door is front and center (it’s a bit yellowed, as are their vent covers, one of which is cracked) with the word HitchHiker emblazoned on. The rain is coming down steadily, making a quagmire of the ground between us. Their blinds are closed and no lights show inside. Park etiquette demands that I not try to peer through their windows…
Wow. That’s very good. Thank you for sharing.
this was an excellent prompt!!!!!! you said it all exactly as it is. thanks for the ping back
Thanks!!! And you’re welcome!
I like the new banner by the way. It may have been up for a bit but I have just seen it and it looks cool. On the subject of windows I do have the fortune of working in a cube placed near some window on the second floor of my employer’s building. I look out it when I hear rain or some random event. When Obama came to Wisconsin last time I was able to see his motorcade drive by. Other than these sparse events I do not bother with the window. I have my kids pictures and geek figures to adore while I work the day away.
Now, about this server room you work in. Good lord man! Do all server rooms look like that? I have been in two of them in my life and the most recent one was with my current employer. That one is super clean, like eat off the floor clean. It also has the freshest air in the building. I got a tour from a friend and he pointed out that they have all cables piped in tubes and everything is mapped out with detail. To be honest it is the most well organized facility in the company and we have six buildings.
Well, I work in a plant that is probably over 50 years old. This room wasn’t originally intended to be a server room nor is it meant for us to be working in here as a PC depot. This is all very unordinary.
If it makes you feel better, it was raining so hard this morning all I really saw was rain so I had to use my imagination as I claimed my back yard and it’s contents…water beating on a window would have been a boring post… Thank You for sharing your views.
You could’ve described how the water violently cascaded down your indifferent window. Or something…
I just described the way the view is on a bright and warm Summer day…it lifted my spirits
I know. I just read it.
Microsoft Windows are magic. They show me whatever I want to see and fades quietly to black when I want to see nothing. I want to replace every window in my house with one of these magic windows. Imagine, I could live anywhere.
Wow. I had never thought of it that way. You could certainly do that, but I imagine that would cost quite a fortune. If you do manage to accomplish that, I want to come live with you.
The stupid window I looked thru once at school was into the Computer Lab full of pimply faced youth, fat balding men that used to have good jobs but are now so fat,,they are learning a “new” job where they can sit on their fat asses all day. There is also the returning to the workforce mothers,,who think that there is a “receptionist” job for them at the end of their business admin courses, (no one’s told them yet that these have almost all been replaced by computers out there, now).
Oh and we can’t forget the Law Enforcement students who are studying so hard to be glorified Mall Cops.
P.S. Most of them all are also coughing, sneezing and spreading germs like no tomorrow.
Um, having a bad day? lol
No surprisingly I’m not,,lol.
It’s going alot better than yesterday.
I’m now actually sitting in that computer room,,,I look like a freaking “winner” in here
Haha. Okay.
Could we draw a comparison between the frames around the pictures you’ve got adorning your desk/working area and the frames the would hold the windows we are supposed to be looking out? Both frames hold the passage way, the portal, in place for us to peer through (into)…
Well, no, because they’re not in frames. lol. I work a plant where food is made so there’s no glass allowed inside the plant. So they’re just hanging on a bulletin board.
Ah, too bad. Hmm, you could take some cardboard or poster board or something and create frames for them! Voila, windows to adventure and untold shennanigans.
Oh, the shenanigans and adventures happen with the children in the pictures are with me.
That’s good! Then who needs silly window or picture frames in the first place?
Not I…
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I have both kinds, but don’t go thinking I am lucky now. One looks into another room that is filled with 50 year old, stale cigarette smelling, 4th grade drop outs desperate for jobs. The other looks to the outside, where I can see a disturbingly boring bush and a Ford billboard. I don’t look out either very much.
You know, I don’t have the slightest idea what you do.
I’m a writer silly.
Ugh. You’re such a smart ass.
That was just my day job.
I have no window at work either. I hate it. I have a wall, and a wall, and a wall, and a wall with a door. Sometimes people come through that door, but it’s always with some vague request for words that they can’t figure out for themselves. I shouldn’t complain. All this focus on math and science in schools is job security. It’s a rare worker bee that can put two words together.
Eh, I wasn’t really complaining. It was an attempt at humor, but apparently a failed one.
I was complaining. I wish there was some natural light in my working space.
I’m sure you’re all the natural light you need.
Ha! I’m just a regular ball of sunshine.
I concur. Like
wait for it….
just a little longer….
A MOTHERFUCKING DOCTOR!!!
I find myself concurring like a doctor, and then I have to run over and see if the writer I’m commenting to reads you and would have any clue. When they don’t, I just shrug my shoulders and think, well they should be.
Yes, they should certainly be. I guess not everyone can bask in my excellence.
They could learn a thing or two. The least of which is how to curse with elegance…and how to concur properly.
Precisely.
Cubicles, weird people (oh wait that was me), some more cubicles, ceiling tiles that were falling apart from the water that exploded into our conference room, and yes, that is it. No window
I’m windowless! THE HORRORS, THE HORRORS!!
RUN!!!
I tried. They locked us in!
The bastards.
I know. It’s like we’re rats and they’re experimenting!
That, unfortunately, is probably closer to the truth than you realize.
I know. I think it’s to see how long before we finally snap. And then I’ll rule them all! They can’t take me!
I don’t know what just happened, but I’m excited about it.
My brain is on overload!
Excitation!!!
Over active imagination + stimulus = oh my!
I’m ready for the next part of your story!! Where are you posting it?
I shall post it with you. I’m working on it now. We have to start trying to take over the world!
I’m down.
Alright! I’ll have it for you this week… Thursday or Friday probably.
No rush.
Cannot stop the creativity! Actually when I write for the most part it all comes out at the same time.
Okay then!!
Try now, I am losing my voice and have to rest it, but there are words in my head that are trying to get out. So they’re spilling out of me. Through typing.
Okay! Have fun!
Oh I am!
Hoorah!!
Just means more entertainment for the masses?
Correction. The Stuph Mafia™.
Haha. Well soon Stuph Mafia will have more!
3 months ago I would have gloated and said I have a most magnificent view of a beautiful city as I looked out the window…common window, no corner office. Now in bfe, if I get to a window, I see corn!
Shut up and post something!!
Eyes narrow and eyebrows raise at the same time as I smile…for now “something”
I see. A smart ass. There seems to be a lot of those around here.
I’m still not past the fact that you are some sort of IT person. You are way too creative to be trapped in a windowless room with wires. I love that you have the pictures of your kiddies to keep you sane amongst the machinery. No doubt those faces make brighten up that room more than those fluorescent bulbs.
Well that’s why I blog! And thank you.
Oh, it explains everything on why you Blog. Your mind is so quick and talented. I’m glad you found an outlet to release all you have to offer.
It really is fun. I’ve met a lot of cool people this way, too. Bonus!!
My new office does not have a window. And unfortunately, it’s no easy task for me to even look out a window. It takes definite effort. It’s kind of sad.
Well that all depends on what you’d actually see if you had a window.
I was implying that I could see the outside world, and maybe, if I was lucky, the sun.
The sun is sometimes overrated. Did you know that prolonged exposure to the sun can burn your skin? True story?
Yeah, but I believe it was the Butthole Surfers who said, “I don’t mind the sun sometimes.”
There are more lyrics to that song, but I don’t remember them, so there’s the chance that they could be sarcastic about minding the sun. If so, I’ve pretty much just killed my own argument.
Hey, don’t feel bad. I’ve done that before, too.
I’ve been home sick today. So I was in my family room surrounded by windows. I looked out at my two crepe myrtle trees that the birds love so much, and the bird feeders which attracts cardinals, woodpeckers, wrens, finches and occasionally a hawk looking for a quick lunch.
You asked for it TwinDaddy. But I didn’t enjoy it.
I bet you secretly did just a little bit
Maybe just a little. Until it started pouring rain, anyway.
Karma!
Haha so good. I shall enjoy my window at work for as long as I can before we move locations in a few months and get relocated to the dungeons of the building.
Ew. That sucks.