Well well well... We're doing this again. How have you been? I've been pretty darn good. Let me catch you up. I graduated again, got into the hiring process with for an Air Traffic Control job and now Abi and I are getting ready to leave the big apple for said job. Preparing to leave has made Abi and I fairly nostalgic about our time here, so I've decided to blog about it. The following is a list of things that I have experienced over the last 2 years that I believe should earn me the "Real New Yorker" merit badge or something:
1: Go to a Broadway show.
2: Eat pizza at Lombardi's
3: Run through Central Park (voluntarily, not being chased)
4: High five a homeless man while running through Central Park
5: Eat cheesecake at Junior's
6: Participate in a fun run through Central Park (partial credit: I wasn't actually signed up)
7: Eat chicken and waffles in Harlem
8: Be one of the only remotely white people in a building (see number 7)
9: Witness two homeless men fighting over a street corner
10: Make fun of New Jersey for not being as cool as New York
11: Yell a string of obscenities at a stranger on the street corner for doing something that didn't necessarily warrant that sort of reaction
12: Have a stranger yell a string of obscenities at you on the street corner for doing something that didn't necessarily warrant that sort of reaction
13: Jam out to Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind" with a random homeless dude
14: Laugh at (what I assume was) a joke told to you by a little old lady in a language you didn't understand because you didn't have the heart to tell her that you didn't speak her language
15: Witness a vagrant washing and styling his hair in runoff rain water from a storefront awning
16: Become infuriated with a TV show or movie because of it's geographical inaccuracies as it pertains to the city
17: Go to a restaurant that has bulletproof glass in front of the register
18: Eat at Gray's Papaya
19: Eat a Nathan's hot dog at Coney Island
20: Get sick in the back of a cab (partial credit: I did not get sick ON the back of the cab)
21: See famous people and DON'T freak out about it
22: Get a Magnolia cupcake and didn't enjoy it because "it was too touristy"
23: Refuse to give a homeless man money even after having him brandish a knife at you (we were on a bus, what was he going to do about it?)
24: Visit the Met for less than $3
25: Sleep through gun shots going off down the street (or so Abi says)
26: Lean into the homeless guy sitting next to me on the subway who smelled like armpits because he was the lesser of two evils
27: Own and use a man bag
28: Eat at a restaurant with a less than stellar grade from the health inspector because the food is that good
29: Take a Q just for the burger
30: Come up with a convoluted, overly drawn out explanation of how I am a New Yorker
It's been a fun ride, New York. I'll miss ya bud!
