Window Guards

Here I am sitting at my desk after a team meeting, I looked out "my" window and I see a carpenter installing window guards on four windows in the new luxury condo building across the street from the New York Stock Exchange.

The four pearly white window guards resemble white wooden fences at a stable. Instead of keeping the horses in, they will serve to keep the children in. So pearly white... I want window guards too... well, for my kids if I had any. I used to have window guards too when I was a kid. My window guards were black. They resembled prison bars. We were already the luckier kids in our multi-building project complex. Some of the older surrounding buildings had cheaper green lead painted windows. Those windows didn't require window guards because they opened inwards like a mailbox slot, but only about 5 inches.

Looking at those pearly white window guards, I can't help but think that the kids that would live there must be spoiled. Even their window guards serve as decorative fixtures. Another kid in the "older" building across the street from it watches Dora the Explorer everyday. I sometimes watch it with him/her too. I can see the TV from "my" window quite clearly. Sigh... a corner apartment in a high rise building across the street from the New York Stock Exchange. His/Her daddy/mommy must be so loaded.

I wonder if my kids would ever live in a corner apartment, in a high rise building, with white window guards.