I am not proud of what I am about to tell you, and I am wondering if others would jump to a similar conclusion.
A month or more ago, I had just pulled my car out of the parking garage at work and turned right onto Atlantic Avenue which runs parallel to The Greenway It was a bright, still, sunlit afternoon and the roads and sidewalks had calmed since Labor Day brought an end to the tourist crush. I pulled into the third lane and came to a red light at the corner of State Street. There was a car in front of me, taking a left and a car in the middle lane with one person in it. On the right corner sidewalk was someone taking a photograph, while almost standing on his head to get the right shot.
The man in middle lane's car, whom I saw from the side, looked to be of Middle Eastern descent. While we were sitting at the light, he pulled a camera up to his eye, pointed it at the large, glass filled office building on the opposite corner and started shooting. As the light turned, this man pulled his camera down and quickly cut over to the left and shot down the street, never to be seen by me again.
Not such an unusual occurrence, someone taking a photo of interesting architecture, but the first thing that entered my mind was that this guy might have been doing surveillance for some dastardly event in the future. This is terrorism at its lowest form and a sad commentary on what life has become.
2 Comments:
I agree with you, that given the times we live in, these things occur to us now. Sometimes thoughts pop into our heads that are not rational or appropriate, but we can usually self-correct. The self-correction is the important part as is the recognition that we are human and we are going to have thoughts and reactions that we aren't proud of all the time.
Thanks for the support, Portar. Yes, I guess the acknowledgment is an important piece of this.
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