So I’m in front of the Greek Embassy yesterday, trying to get myself a visa to go back down to Greece to see my folks:"(I was raised in Greece, my brother was born there and neither of us have the Greek citizenship. I’ll be sure to write a proper post in the future about the reasons why I hate the Greek Government)": , and it decides to seriously start pissing it down:"(Raining heavily in English-English )": . Luckily the Greek embassy has foreseen this and given those poor hapless souls some form of shelter as they’re waiting outside the embassy to hide from the rain right? Wrong. I’m usually prepared for this sort of thing and never leave the house without the proper equipment (umbrella, moleskin, panadol, pen, etc). at 8:30 in the morning there was only 2 people out there, me and a girl from Columbia. It’s amazing how being stuck in the same shitty situation can make people bond together and break down any communication barriers in a matter of seconds. We’re huddled under two umbrellas (mine began to leak, that’s how heavy the rain was). Though we’d both have rather been somewhere else, anywhere else, we were both glad that someone else was suffering in the same way (my feet are still wet from yesterday). We were not alone.

Which kind of brings a lot of things/actions we do out of behavioral attributes in our makeup. Arup engineered the Millennium bridge in London. When it was first launched it was unstable. Fair enough. The problem you see was that Arup hadn’t anticipated people marching in step over the actual bridge which caused it to vibrate.

Another behavioral action I’ve noticed and I can’t for the life of me explain, and think why? Next time you see someone with an umbrella, notice the little flap that hangs out that ties the umbrella together when it’s closed. I guarantee that flap will be in the front left (relative to the person). It won’t be dangling towards the back or right but to the front and left hand side. Then you’ll have a look at how you’re holding your umbrella, and you’ll notice the same thing. Weird.

And no the thing with the embassy didn’t go smoothly, since now he wants a paper from my dad saying I’m going to stay over at his house when I go over. The retarted nature of these fuckers really NEVER ceases to amaze me.