Ahem, Tom, you've told me that AT LEAST 21 times!!! And did it happen? No, not once! Besides, what makes you think that skinny giant cranes are fraught with portent?
Well, actually I was being optimistic and hoping that the "they" were good things coming, not bad. You're right that occasionally you might not want to step under or around them. Bad portent, yes; good, maybe not.
Ahem, Tom, you've told me that AT LEAST 21 times!!! And did it happen? No, not once! Besides, what makes you think that skinny giant cranes are fraught with portent?
ohhh, mom, they do fall over, one fell in bellevue. maybe that's why I left the civil engineering business- too many scary cranes!
You do know that it was my apartment building that crane fell on in Bellevue, don't you?
Well, actually I was being optimistic and hoping that the "they" were good things coming, not bad. You're right that occasionally you might not want to step under or around them. Bad portent, yes; good, maybe not.