I was driving through Tel Aviv on my way to The World’s Most Expensive ParkingTM and I saw the Tel Aviv Opera building on Shaul HaMelech. Its such a beautiful building and I haven't driven past or even visited it for such a long time. I remembered when I first came to Israel and how foreign it looked. I remember the first time I saw it which was at night and it must have been before I moved here because we dropped by to see Esti who worked at the Apropo there at that time.
Turn left and you pass Asia House. We had a friend's husband who worked there as a prestigious lawyer. Once I went to meet him there because he was paying me to be a companion to my friend who was recovering a head injury she suffered in a car accident. As he walked me to the cashpoint and we were discussing his wife's condition, my eye was caught by a baby lizard that had somehow fallen into my friend's husband's path. I watched as the lizard ran and squiggled along just slightly ahead of our trajectory. I can't remember what my friend's husband said because I was transfixed watching the lizard running and squiggling until all of a sudden came the inevitable *SQUISH!*
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As my friend's husband withdrew my salary, I looked back at that sorryass baby lizard footkill whose killer wasn't even aware of his actions.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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