Do you ever have a day where you just want to sit at home
and do nothing? Maybe watch a movie and eat some noodles and drink some milk?
Well what happens when you feel like that but you also happen to be visiting
NYC? I guess you could say I was being lame for sitting in the apartment working
on my computer when there is a cultural hotspot right outside the window, but
screw it man! I was happy just sitting on a couch playing video games and
watching movies and working on the Tara Tech Crew logo.
At about 4pm I started thinking about doing something real,
so I took a shower, got dressed, and headed out into the city. First I stopped
by a bar called 1 2 3, with 1 dollar burgers, 2 dollar shots, and 3 dollar
beers. The part that they don’t say on the sign is that the minimum order of
burgers is 3 for $3.75. I guess $1.25 is the new $1. They were pretty good and
they had a bunch of sauces to smother your bambinos with.
Next I walked to the Times Square area and watched people
for a while. I tried to pick up chicks by saying “Excuse me, I think you
dropped something” and handing them a scrap of paper with my number on it, but
two that I managed to give out yielded a paltry return of 0. Part of the
problem, I think, was that as soon as I handed them the piece of paper I ran
away with a look of terror on my face, quite opposite from the smile-and-wink
that was planned…
I tried to use my Olive Garden gift card, but the dude said
it would be 45 minutes, and I couldn’t leave the building. So I left and kept
walking. After seeing at least three Iron Mans, a Captain America, and some
Statue of Libertys, I found a 99 cent pizza place. I got a slice. It was damn
good! To hell with 3 dollar slices at Sal and Carmine’s, this stuff is the
bomb! As I was walking away I saw a homeless dude and I thought about the Roman
Atwood prank where they get the pizza guys to deliver a free pizza to the “undercover
CIA agents posed as homeless guys” (read homeless guys). I went back and
ordered a whole pizza with the intent to give out slices to the brothers in
need. Now, I’ll be damned, but finding homeless dudes when you are actually
looking for them is one of the hardest things ever! I ended up having to eat 2
of the slices ‘cause I couldn’t find enough dudes to give them to!
After I had given away the last slice, I made my way back to
the apartment, watched another episode of, you guessed it, Psych, and went to
sleep in the luxurious green silky covers, this time a green ball staring at me
while I dreamed.
~ ~ ~
I will be attending a Tom Brown Tracker School class this
coming week, so will be unable to continue blogging. I will, however, pick up
in a week with a long post about Tracker School and continue with my vacation
from there. Thank you for taking the time to read my humble rendition of a travel
blog! Hope you’ve enjoyed it.
Cooper
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