the silent garage

There's this one parking garage in portland, right next to the fox tower, and it is the creepiest parking garage on earth, especially at night. They have some sort of insulation covering the ceiling and it deadens all the noise in there. So unlike most parking garages, there are no echos, you can't hear other cars driving around, and it's just eeri (sp?) Oh and it doesn't help that there was aboslutly no one around in the garage, and it was hard to find the elevator. We went to the one door that said exit, and it took us down this weird hallway, to a stair well, which took us to another weird hallway, with weird doors that were unmarked, and it just didnt' feel right, we had no idea where we were going or where this hallway was leading us, so we finally turned back. I know it kind of sounds like a dream with these strage hallways and silent parking garage, but it wasn't. You woudln't think that a quiet parking garage would be that weird and creepy, but it really is. I felt like I was in some sort of scary movie, and the killer was hiding just waiting for me to try to get in my car. I think the weirdest part was that when you walk there is no echo. You get accustomed to the echo of a parking garage; you slam your door and it makes a huge noise, you walk and every foot step echos, even the ding of the elevator makes a noise, but not in this garage. Everything was muffled and silenced, no echos what so ever. Usually you don't really think about the sound of a parking garage, because it's such a natural sound to most of us, but you know when it's not there, it really makes a difference. It's kind of wierd how sometimes the only way you notice something is through its absense.