Seoulscapade

A chill went up my spine and tingling down my legs when I watched these guys go to work. I used to be pretty fearless, when I was young, and even went parachuting a couple of times. But I could never do what these guys were doing.

They were here to inspect all the seals on all the windows of each apartment building. Presumably this was to prevent water and bugs getting in during the upcoming Monsoon season.

Sunah and I were still getting ready to go to work when we heard them clamboring around on the roof above us. We live on the top floor, 24 stories up. To the left of us, the building with larger apartments is one story less, so I could see another team of them preparing their ropes, one of them having a casual cigarette while standing at the edge of a 23 story drop.

Ropes were dropped passed our balcony windows. Then some little seats were lowered. I grabbed the camera in anticipation; already, the rabbits were going berzerk, but that intensified when the guys got into their seats and started coming past our windows.

I didn’t see how they got into the seats but I guess they just step into them somehow over the edge. I thought about this, about that moment, when you leave the roof and step out to get in the seat, at one point astride that drop going from solid ground to a little chair. Now that would take guts.

I’ll try and get some better pictures next time I see them in action.