Springtime in NYC

So we’re walking down the street in NYC.

Yeah, it’s between classes and the weather is great so we took a weekend off.

Anyhow, we’re walking down the street in NYC between 5 and 6 in the evening. A guy – probably early-30’s – is ahead of us in a suit, he’s obviously coming home from work. Since it was St. Patrick’s day, he was probably in a hurry to go celebrate with his friends.

Anyhow, as we walk along, suddenly there’s a “thunk, crack” noise and his cell phone hits the sidewalk.

It’s a universal sound to anyone who owns one. We seem intuitively to know when this electronic baby’s cry happens, that our lifeline to the universe has left our person and has whacked the ground.

It’s almost inevitably followed by a single loud word, almost always starting with “F”, that comes from the realization that $400 worth of electronics just landed in a puddle or bounced off a concrete sidewalk.

The other interesting thing we learned – our friend ordered a book online from Barnes and Noble, at about 9:30 in the morning.

In NYC, if you order by 11, it is delivered THE SAME DAY.

That’s just amazing to me.



It’s beautiful out, off to explore the City shortly.