Day Two- Time Is On My Side

Woke up at 1:00 today…PM that is. Ran in the park. I think I could get used to this. In fact, I realized today that for the first time in my entire life, I have no obligations. Think about it: grammar school through high school, college, jobs, business school. Since I was 5 I always had to be somewhere or do something I didn’t want to do. With this freedom I believe that my patience level has gone from 0% to .76% (which is 80% more than most New Yorkers). For example, I went to Starbucks and smirked when I saw a woman get angry and leave b/c the line was too long. Ha! I thought…she needs to be somewhere… and I don’t. Then I thought that I could have fun with this. Maybe I could go to my old Starbucks at 48th and Park around 8:45AM and ask about the caloric contents of the Frappacinos while all the suits behind me want to wring my neck. Then I can go to Chop’t around 1:30. I’ll order a salad with everything on it, and then ask to taste each salad dressing, only to get my salad sans dressing. After all, I have the time to take my time. I don’t have to be back at my desk for a 2PM conference call with the coast just to talk about how nice the weather is in LA for 35 minutes. Finally, I could do the most devilish, most annoying thing to a commuter; but I would need a partner in crime. What could be more fun than riding the 4 train at 8:00AM with a guy whom I could just cuddle and kiss like the plane is going down? We’ll whisper and giggle like we don’t have a care in the world and take pictures of each other on our phones. Of course, I’ll get up numerous times to check the map on the train, obliviously leaning over people, having my long hair creepily brush them on the arm.

Then I popped back into reality when I was riding the cross town bus tonight. My newly found .76% patience rate declined exponentially after each stop…children who “have” to swipe the card, people going only one stop, and then the elderly…don’t get me started on the “bus elderly”…that’s a whole blog unto itself. It was then I realized I could never be that obnoxious person who takes their time ordering coffee or a salad, oblivious to the world around them. I’m a New Yorker. I may have time to spare, but I’m going to use that time wisely. I will never have patience for dilly-dalliers….especially the elderly.

Song of the Day: Take The Long Way Home, Supertramp-~ “ When you look through the years and see what you could have been, what you might have been, if you’d have more time.”