If you would be willing to work in a building that stretches a mile into the sky. A Saudi billionaire is planning to build a “mega-skyscraper” in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It would be “taller than four Empire State Buildings stacked upon each other”.
Hmm. One has to wonder what this guy was doing back in September of 2001. Playing golf? Ummm…sailing around the Adriatic? Perhaps trying to extract his head from his ass. You put an enormous ego together with an endless supply of cash and you end up with men that have nothing better to do but try an outdo themselves in erecting monstrosities that become eyesores and invitations for madmen to fly jetliners right into them. Talk about compensating for a small penis. One guys buys a monster truck, another guy builds a mile high building. Which one has the smaller wang?
And who would have the balls to work on the upper floors of this place? You gotta know that sooner or later it’s all going to come tumbling down, right? The Tower of Babel may have been just some tall tale in the Bible for some, but, I mean, it kind of makes sense after a while. Instead of a tall, tall building, why don’t you, oh, I don’t know, feed the entire country of Ethiopia?
You wanna know why I wouldn’t want to work in a building that tall? I have a tendency to leave things in my car that I often times have to run out and get when I am at work. Imagine getting to the top floor and saying, “Oh, shit! I left my lunch in the Honda!” By the time I got back to my car I am pretty sure I would say, “*uck it” and go home. The article says that they have these super-speed elevators they would use that could get you from the bottom floor to the top in about two minutes. That doesn’t comfort me much. A belt breaks or a wire is left dangling and that sumbitch could go flying right through the roof or crash into Hades. The elevator at my job broke once while a lady was still inside of it. She ended up going to the hospital. An elevator breaks in this building and they’re getting you off the floor with a mop and a squeegee.
It would be hypocritical of me to say that I wouldn’t do something outlandish with my money if I was worth $23 billion dollars. It just seems to me that these guys could come up with something a little more original than building taller and taller slabs of concrete.
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