Up North (& Out There doing it)

Seriously?

Guy sits down next to me on the train today – a little hipper than the normal MTA fare and smelling 10% more shower fresh than expected (or normal) and I notice that he is kicking not one but two Rolex watches, both turned to the inside of his wrist.

 

What’s going on there?

Hard core reading!

Just sat down next to a guy on the train, and noticed that he had a print out from the web of the first chapter of 'War and Peace' printed out in English. Then I noticed that to the side of it, he is reading the real deal book, 'War and Peace', written in Russian.

Regardless of whatever is this guy's native tongue, he clearly isn't 100% proficient in the other and reading 'War and Peace' in the 'other' language is pretty hard core.

Its sad

When under $20 feels so good.

What an A-hole (sorry, its the only way to describe this beeeeatch this morning (again sorry)

Took an early train this morning for a work meeting and had *plenty* of time to get to the train station and make the train. Meanwhile, some gal is driving like a NASCAR driver trying to warm up their tires behind me. She's got the tell tale train station parking pass dangle hanging from her rear view mirror. You can tell, she's antsy. And if I'd know what an insane move she was about to make, I'd written down and shared her license plate number. We're coming up to a stop light that is basically down the hill and a little bit curvey. I'm about 6 cars back, and then all of the sudden, she pulls up on my left, into on coming traffic to cut in front of everyone to the front of the traffic waiting at traffic light. I'd never seen anything like this. What a huge 'I'm so important" move on this gals part. And what totally doesn't make any sense is that it didn't make any difference. I drove the 'normal' way to the station and made it just fine with time to spare and stand on the platform. What a huge beeeeeeeatch move.

Perfect Morning

I think the best colors of fall were on display today.

Nice Morning View

Ship captain up the Hudson would be nice on a day like today.

Small town feel

This is why you live here. A charming couple runs the little coffee shop at the train station from I'm guessing 5:00 in the morning until 2:00 in the afternoon. Today they were congratulating a regular patron about getting married recently and just returning from his honeymoon. Then the woman asked to see some pictures. That's such a cool connection that isn't fostered as visible or as easy in New York.

On a man?

So its not surprising to see a gal, in a business suit wearing flip flops. If you have to schlep all the way cross town, you don't want to be wearing stillettos. But today, on the train, I noticed a guy, rather well dressed sitting next to me in a pin stripe suit and flip flops. Pretty surprising. But not nearly as surprising when he stood up, grabbed his messanger bahg and his long board skateboard to get off the train.

A long board. Who knew?

Seen a lot of snow, never seen this

I grew up with 300 days of clouds and winters from Halloween to May Day so winter storms are nothing new.  However, in all of my years, I've never seen this phenomenon.  I would say that approximately 15% of the parking lot had flipped their windshield wipers up like in this picture.

What is going on here? Is this supposed to keep your windshield wipers from freezing to your windows?

If so,  I guess that's a good idea perhaps, but if your car is that caked in ice, exactly what are windshield wipers that are in the free and clear going to do for you? I suppose perhaps you could then get in your car, heat it up, let the ice start to melt and then wipe the windshield clear?

No idea. Then it struck me, as I was thinking 'Well, should I do this too?', how many of these windshield wipers are flipped up because someone else saw the 'other guy' do that and then figured they had better too. With a bunch of ex-city slickers Up North, I definitely think some folks don't know what they are doing in inclement weather.  But if the guy next to them is doing it, they have better too.

Why is this always the way?

Bummer. Already bad enough that I had to go to work on a Sunday with my parents in town, but then I get stuck on Metro North for the first time ever for over twenty minutes. What a drag. On the plus side, I just got this new Treo 680 and am trying blogging from it. Could be a lot more posts, but a lot more typos too.