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The building, as you all probably know, houses our local transportation bureau and has been there at the corner of Gary and Mason ever since the government’s transportation divisions merged with the gasoline companies. The building is actually the standard rectangle garage shape but also rounded on one end where the ramps for vehicles to enter each floor wind their way up. The floors end here resemble a stack of large concrete disks with a thin edge and are supported by large round pillars that appear to pierce a the entire stack, giving the place quite a unique appearance. As with all the new government bureaus, it was once a public parking structure and the offices themselves are all “mo-bispa”. “Mo-bispa”, pronounced “moe bee spay” from the short form of the words “mobile” and “spaces”, are of course the large mobile-home like office vehicles deemed popular on TV, and part of the reason I have this photo and story to share, though the point is the building itself. I have ridden past the building many times and even had to visit it once to renew my bicycle permit the year I tried to skip paying the gasoline tax while renewing on line; after all, I do not even own a motorized vehicle. However not until looking at it while laying on my side with my head pressed against the sidewalk, did I understand where it got its nick name. The locals have always called it “The Slicer” and until today, I thought it was analogy regarding how they slice the people or our pocket books to ribbons or such. However now I saw that at the right angle it quite resembles a gigantic bread or cheese slicer. [to be continued]

This is an ongoing fictional story in blog format, by Jayson Lorenzen.

To read the rest, please see the new site created where these adventure will continue to unfold: http://clog.monjayaki.org/