I Mistook an Actual Blazing Inferno for a Movie Shoot

As I was getting off the 101 at Vine last week, I saw that the street had been completely blocked off and that there were about 10 fire trucks shooting hoses at a building on the west side of the street. I was enraged.

There are constantly street closures in this part of Hollywood for movie premieres and film shoots, so I naturally assumed this debacle was an inconsiderate production unit shooting an action sequence.

I mean, how can you just shut down one of the biggest intersections in the country during morning rush hour? Does ANYONE give a flying fuck about the non-famous citizens of this town anymore?

I cursed these douches for not properly announcing the street closures and got all pissed off that I was 15 minutes late to work. I even went out of my way to take a picture with my phone so I could complain to all my co-workers about how these studios never take the common man into account when shutting down major commuter traffic. And all this in the name of a more convenient shooting schedule? Fuck these guys.

It wasn't until I flipped on the news an hour later that I realized what I'd seen was not a shoot for the new Will Smith vehicle, but in fact a Hollywood historical monument, the old building that houses the Basque nightclub, burning to the ground.