Walk the talk

I was just walking past the EDS building on North Terrace. It's a big office building which houses the Motor Registration office, a big Optus call centre and presumably some EDS staff also. The one notable thing about the building is the smell of stale cigarettes as you walk past. Approximately 100% of the employees in this building smoke so at any given time you'll see about a dozen or so people out the front sucking on gaspers, creating a hazy cloud. I've seen drivers put their headlights on just to go past. There are a couple of those cigarette-butt cylinders attached to poles outside for people to put out and dispose of their used smokes. You put it out on the angled surface on top and stick it through a hole. A few times a week you will see smoke billowing out of the holes and the smell of burning cigarette filter filling the air. But enough about the pulmonary health of the staff down the road. As I was walking past just now, there was a lady standing outside the building looking for something, someone, a bus, a building number perhaps. Her hand was at her forhead, salute style, to block the sunlight from her eyes. There was something about the way she was standing that looked a little odd. As I approached her I thought "That lady looks like she's trying to do a poo". As I drew almost level with her, she started walking in the same direction as me. I thought "I better speed up; things might get a bit smelly if I'm walking behind her". After a few steps though, it became clear that she had some kind of prosthetic limb thing going on under those slacks. I feel kinda bad. Really.