Watch for Falling Watermelons & Poo

"The watermelon shoot is set up at the YMCA"

In the winter months where my movements are restricted to fast paced hustles to my car with my head buried in a coat collar my girlfriend, with her CTW based place of employment, is my eyes on the street. Apparently I once announced my desire to her to drop some watermelons down one of those yellow garbage shoots that hang off the side of buildings in construction.

The YMCA is under reconstruction that will turn the upper floors into a hotel and keep the bottom as a reorganized YMCA.

Hopefully they will do something about the outside of the building which exudes all the charm only a concrete shoe box can. I'm not sure what happened, but for a few decades there seemed to have been an unspoken agreement to build every building to look as absolutely depressing as possible.

My friend told me a story about his boss having a smoke outside the Stamford YMCA at the exact moment a guest several stories up thought it an opportune time to empty the bucket he had been shitting in over the course of the week out the window onto the aforementioned smoker's head. Now if ended up the poop head, I would have saved RMS Construction the effort and promptly ripped the building down by hand.

I first talked to my girlfriend in front of the YMCA. I managed to pull it off against the backdrop of 60's concrete modernism/ pre fancy hotel refurbish. We were a relatively safe distance away from any window trajectory though.