Survivor: Tuesday
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007It used to be the promise of two Taco John’s tacos for 99 cents that kept me going on a Tuesday (extra motivation if I planned to eat there for lunch AND dinner, open lunch, ole!).
This Tuesday my day was made by the unexpected 10-car F train showing up in place of the 4-car G train. For those unfamiliar with the G, this is like having a limo pull up outside your door to take you to work. A funny smelling limo. With orange plastic seats. And ads. A funny smelling limo with orange plastic seats and ads whose only real difference from your normal limo is that its longer. Sigh.
How are you surviving?
March 6th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
I always remember Tuesday as 25c wing day at Bw3. Then prices started to rise, 30c, 35c, when would the madness stop?!? The prices have held, last I heard. If prices rise again, even more disastrous consequences could occur than what happened last time: http://media.www.dailyiowan.com/media/storage/paper599/news/2004/08/25/Metro/Wings.On.Rise-704778.shtml
March 6th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
My Tuesday would be a whole hell of a lot better if it weren’t -8 degrees out.
And I hate the F train. But I suppose it’s probably a lot better if it’s on the G track.
March 6th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
You’re bitching about -8 degrees? Seriously? Has NY really turned you that soft? Two weeks ago it was -25 degrees here. Just this morning it was -12. AND we had a double ass-kicking last week with two huge ice and snow storms.
I can’t believe you’re complaining about -8.
March 6th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
It’s truly a whole different scale of temperature here. sheala & mattbot is it because we’re walking outside in blowing wind so much of the time…does it make it feel colder than it actually is. In other news, the most exciting thing about my Tuesday was that I was nearly blown over on my walk home from the Q.
So maybe a 10-car F train instead of the G is really the best hope we have for how good Tuesday’s gonna get.
March 6th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
It was so cold I totally forgot to use question marks. Interpret that previous comment as you like.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
i decided to dye my hair again and continue the lost:season 2 spree i am on.
tomorrow? the world.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
WHOA. We are on a Lost season 1 spree, almost literally as I type. Whats-her-ass is about to give birth and the creepy Ethan guy just showed up.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:14 am
I wouldn’t normally post, but we are on a Lost season 3 spree and it was just too perfect. Also, 7-8 of the 10 most popular music videos are pretty much porn. Of the non-porn remainder, one of them seems to have stolen its main theme from Ignition (remix) by R Kelly. Another is a group of white men being scorned, then appreciated by an audience of black people. The final music video is White and Nerdy by Weird Al.
I survived this tuesday in part because a reporter named Libby Louis was covering the Louis Libby verdict on NPR.
March 7th, 2007 at 11:15 am
I know I’m a few hours late here, but I need to defend the coldness of -8 degrees. I had to walk twenty minutes in this weather. I believe skb drives 4 blocks to work.
We new yorkers are out in the elements much more than any midwesterner. ever.
March 7th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Frank, you should normally post. Quality information like the kind you just shared with us should not be kept to yourself!
I can see both sides of the cold argument. While we aren’t dashing from heated space to heated space in NYC, it’s not like we spend any time outside shoveling snow, either.
March 7th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
First of all, I do not always drive to work. Sometimes I walk. But other times my job demands that I have a car ready and available. For those of you thinking I drive because I’m lazy clearly have never worked at a newspaper where you may have to leave the office immediately to get in your car and drive to a crime scene as quickly as possible. Also, another added incentive to the job is that there are usually major fires on the coldest and hottest days of the year. Fires that require standing outside for hours. I believe you work in an office pretty much every hours of the work day. Am I right?
And as for recent cold temperatures, I’ve been “out in the elements” for extended periods of time running in “blizzard conditions.”
March 7th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
I don’t want to hear any bullshit about how tough it is to walk to your Sunday brunch in Eastwick or how a brisk 20-minute walk to work is harder than digging a Buick the size of your NY apartments out of three feet of wet snow and ice piled up by a snowplow. You guys got it really rough. Shrugging off all the embelishment and self pity in the above comments, my parents lost power for 5 days due to a recent ice storm…my dad had to take a week of vacation to stay home and rotate a generator between the house furnace, garage furnace and freezer in four hour shifts.
To get back to the point of this post…Mattbot, recent survival methods for me have included a 40 oz. Olde English and, with the wife away on business tonight, a big fucking bucket of chicken. Also, the heat in my car doesn’t work and last Saturday I had to drive an hour and a half (at 30 mph due to road conditions) to Mason City just to watch the team I cover lose. Again.
Maggie, you would have frozen to death, quite literally. I mean we could have snapped parts of you off after such a drive. Me, I rolled the windows down and smoked my way there. Cause I’m from Iowa. And I don’t bitch about a little breeze.
March 7th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Okay, you guys win.
But, damn it, I’m from Iowa too, Tony. 57 mph winds are not a ‘little breeze’.
March 7th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Your parents are from Iowa, you fled as soon as you reached the legal age.
Maybe your mentor can give you advice on how to deal with that 57 mph breeze. I bet your ivory publishing tower actually sways in that kind of wind.
March 7th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Sara approved that as being funny and not mean, but she has been wrong before. And I have been mean before.
March 7th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
I was going to make a fart joke, but I enjoyed the idea of an ivory publishing tower more.
March 7th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
How can I possibly reconcile friends in opposing boroughs…Iowa Falls in the county of Hardin and Brooklyn in the county of Kings are being divided over the iciness of our respective locations. Can we agree that the chilly weather is making us all a little impatient for some proper springtime?
And tb, I have no doubt that I would have snapped in half. Not only does that drive sound miserably cold, I am a 100% total wimp.
Oh, and you do realize that the fact that we’re all so passionately arguing over weather means we’re all still Iowans down to the core, right? Even Sheala.
P.S. Lost is my life. Who knew terrible writing and great production quality could get you so far in life?!? My favorite part, now that I know there’s a Locke and a Rousseau on the island, is waiting for when a Hume or Burke makes an appearance.
March 8th, 2007 at 9:34 am
your trains travel underground. our trains require hanging out in the elements. they also smell funny. grow a pair.
lost rules.
fried chicken + OE = mmmm
HI FRANK!
March 8th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
what’s even better about lost is the fact that us weekly is covering the story with headlines such as: lost:lost? implying that the writing and production have only recently gone down the tubes. you’re going to be so excited for season 2!
March 8th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
You work at home, scat.
And Lost does rule. I’m glad we can all at least agree on that!
March 12th, 2007 at 12:55 am
dood! six pack and a pound. tios sucks.
March 21st, 2007 at 6:52 pm
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