Oh the buildings you’ll build

Around the corner from my house, in a lot I have to pass several times a week, there is a new building under construction.  The giant block walls have been slowly forming and climbing higher and higher.  It’s a shapeless sort of gray building: long, rectangular with windows.  It’s so nondescript at this point there is no way to guess what it will ultimately become.

Isn’t that one of the most imagination inducing events?  A new building with no signage of any kind could be virtually anything.  Maybe it’ll be an astronaut training facility, or a fortune cookie factory, or a floral genetics

Seussical

 laboratory.  Oh, the possibilities are endless.  It turns my imagination Seussical.

Even more mysterious is the fact that I’ve never, ever seen any constuction workers there.  Now granted, I’m not driving by the site during the day while I’m at work, but I do pass it sometimes in the morning and there’s never anyone there.  It’s at the end of my street – you’d think at least once during the several months activity has been going on there I’d see a hard hat or flat-bed truck dropping off supplies or something.  Nope. 

It’s like invisible trolls pile up the bricks and mortar because everyday the building is bigger with no evidence of construction workers.

This weekend, Sassy and I went into the convenience store next door to the lot and while I was paying my 75.00 per gallon of gasoline, I asked the clerk if she had any idea what the building was ultimately going to be.

“A Window Depot,” she said.

What color was my disappointment?  It was industrial gray, let me tell you, industrial gray like the bricks and mortar of that shell of  a building.  How mundane – A Window Depot.  My Seussical imagination totally deflated.

Worst invisible construction trolls ever.