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puddlesofunI am a pale human being living in an environment that my ancestors never evolved for. The sunlight hurts me. It's a half hour walk to work, and in summer, I scurry nosferatu-like from shadow to shadow. I know the routes that expose me to the least sunlight in the afternoon (term time), and the mornings (school holidays). When I am waiting to cross the road at traffic lights I position myself so that I am in the shadow of the traffic light itself.
On my way home I stop and wait on a traffic island on the corner of new and old Canterbury Roads. There is very little shade there, and at that time of the day, at this time of the year the only source of it is from diagonally across the road. McDonald's. If I crouch on the corner of the island, the sun comes from directly behind the elevated golden arches, and the shadow of the pole that holds it up reaches across the carbon-monoxide concrete expanse like some sort of sinister finger that sprouts at the end into a blurred and distorted facsimile of the urban icon, shrouding me where I kneel.
So if you drive past me on Canterbury Rd and it looks as if I am subjugating myself in worship of the suburban temple of lard and multinational ubiquity, just know that all I'm really doing is leeching off of their shade.
On my way home I stop and wait on a traffic island on the corner of new and old Canterbury Roads. There is very little shade there, and at that time of the day, at this time of the year the only source of it is from diagonally across the road. McDonald's. If I crouch on the corner of the island, the sun comes from directly behind the elevated golden arches, and the shadow of the pole that holds it up reaches across the carbon-monoxide concrete expanse like some sort of sinister finger that sprouts at the end into a blurred and distorted facsimile of the urban icon, shrouding me where I kneel.
So if you drive past me on Canterbury Rd and it looks as if I am subjugating myself in worship of the suburban temple of lard and multinational ubiquity, just know that all I'm really doing is leeching off of their shade.
