Does anyone cheer for the Knicks anymore?

So I haven't been in this city long, but I am somehow getting the feeling that no one around here really cheers for the Knicks.

Of course there are those die hard fans (what team doesn't have those), but every time I mentioned the team people seriously laughed at me.

Fabulous and I went to a game last week. We paid $15 each for our nosebleed seats (still a pretty good view though), did pretty much nothing but drink beer, get drunk, made friends and had one of the best times ever! It was seriously so much fun! And despite the rest of this city's opinion of the team we are definitely going back for more games (and beer of course).

GO KNICKS!!!

P.S. - I can maybe see why people in this city don't like them - we lost the game 111-110 to the Nets. But hey, it was only preseason - maybe there is hope during the regular season.

Number 3

This is by far the best subway "musical" act begging for money that I have ever seen.

No lie, it was a two man bluegrass band. Complete with the country accent that made you just want to slap your knee to the beat of their song. If you need some sort of visual, think George Clooney's band in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"


Their instruments included a paper bag with their coins in it that was the tambourine (I guess) and a rolled up newspaper the one guy was hitting against his hand as a drum. All they needed to complete their band was a banjo player. They even wrote their own lyrics! The best line of one of the songs (oh they definitely had a few they sung - seriously - I can see an album coming out next year entitled "Subway Blues") was "Smile. It won't even ruin your hair."

These guys were seriously a riot and I hope that you one day get to experience their subway concert!

Something I've Never Seen Before

So this is completely random and of no real importance, but I decided I would share anyway.

For the first time in all my years of visiting the city and now living here I saw a woman driving a cab the other day. Not that I am trying to be stereotypical or anything, but I can honestly say that I have NEVER seen a woman driving a cab before!

Subway Crazies

So this will be a continuous posting of all the crazy people I meet in the subway.

The subway crazies (as I like to call them) are not only interesting for their antics, but also because...well first, it is a well known fact that New Yorkers are not exactly known for being the nicest people ever nor do ever really talk to strangers. Everyone just minds their own business. But these subway crazies make these I-am-just-minding-my-own-business-New-Yorkers ban together essentially. And when you think about it - it is kind of cool.



Subway Crazy #1:

This man was not necessarily crazy, but just kind of off. He was an older gentleman and walked hunched over. So we get into the subway train (which of course was pretty full) and crazy is standing next to me. It smelled sooooooooooo bad on the train and when I looked over at crazy... you could see a line of wetness down one of his pant legs. Yep, crazy had peed in his pants. Now I actually felt kind of bad for crazy because I really do not think he was all there upstairs and thus did not realize what happened.

But the smell was beyond horrendous. Seriously, I do not know if I have ever smelled anything so bad. The comical part of course was that everyone around him - we were all making faces together and laughing about how bad it smelled.



Subway Crazy #2:

This subway crazy really was crazy.

First, he tried to jump on the train when the doors were closing. So of course he got stuck in the doors, was yelling at the conductors to open the doors and then was finally let into the subway. He then proceeds to start talking at the top of lungs about who knows what. Complaining in general about people. I turned up the volume on my iPod to drown him out (my normal response to the people who get on the trains explaining their tragic life story and asking for money - I am not a horrible person I swear. it just gets a tad bit annoying after about the 10th tragic story, which of course is oddly similar to the nine stories before it..).

Then we get to the next stop - people get off the train and people get on. And the crazy (who was at the other end of the train car) gets back onto the train at the doors right next to me!! Aghh!

He goes into some rant about how we are all disgusting for standing so close to one another (meanwhile he is the one who wedged himself onto the train when there was clearly no room). Then he all of a sudden became a prophet or archangel or something to that effect and that he was there to save us. (p.s. - the entire time he is talking he has a cardboard box around one side of his head and an opened folder around the other trying to block anyone from looking at him).

The funny part was that these girls who were standing closer to him at the stop when he originally got on the train moved to the doors closest to me at the next stop to try and get away from him. Clearly that did not work out too well for them because he got on the train right next to them again. So this crazy was spouting off his prophecies or whatever, one of the girls starts singing (really well actually) to try and drown him out. It actually worked and he shut up (for a bit anyways). She then proceeded to ask the train car for requests. The entire car was laughing and some people even started to shout out songs for her to sing.

All in all, a very interesting train ride.

Spiderwoman

When I first moved here to New York I had no place to live. So Fabulous and her roommate, the One Man Boy Band, graciously let me sleep on their couch for a month. It was kind of a crazy system we had because there were only 2 keys to the apartment. Both Fabulous and One Man Boy Band work in restaurants so they were gone in the evenings, while I was at my 9-5 corporate america job.

The system was that when Fabulous left for work, she would leave the key under the mat so I get into the apartment when I got home from work. Then I in turn would leave it under the mat for her when she got home, so that she would not have to wake me in the wee hours of the morning when she got home to let her in.

Well one rainy day I come home from work, walk the five flights up to the apartment only to discover that there is NO key under the mat.

Great.

I tried contacting One Man Boy Band to see if he was maybe heading home early. No such luck there. I then tried contacting Fabulous. No luck either.

My only option then - scale down the fire escape. Yep, I walked the two more flights up to the roof (which had a gorgeous view by the way) and started climbing backwards down the fire escape. Not gonna lie in that it was definitely a little scary. But I made it to our apartment (thank god we leave the window open) and crawled inside.


It was actually pretty exciting times now that I look back on it. :)

Some Like it Hot

So my friend, we will call her Fabulous, had a moment in her life that was seriously straight out of a movie. Really, things like this do not happen to us normal girls. But since she is Fabulous, it of course happens to her.

Fabulous works at a rather upscale restaurant in midtown. One of her managers, Dreamboat as we will call him, was leaving the company. So one night after the restaurant closed all the employees stayed after popping bottles of the bubbly to celebrate Dreamboat's last night. Fabulous and Dreamboat had always had a big brother/little sister type relationship. However, things changed that night.

Basically when Fabulous decided it was time to drag her drunk ass home, she went downstairs to the office to grab her things. Unbeknown to her, Dreamboat followed her. As she opened the door he came up behind her and whispered in her ear "I want to ____ you." Well the man is named Dreamboat for a reason, so what girl in their right mind would say no?!

Moral of the story, Fabulous had that great, passionate high-heels-still-on-skirt-pulled-above-your-waist-and-pulling-on-his-tie-to-bring-him-closer sex.


All I can say - good lord I sure as hell hope that happens to me one day. Don't you agree?



p.s. - his girlfriend still doesn't know ;)