In the city, part 2
I’m a little short on time, so I’m not going to get into my work business, which is what I’ve been spending the majority of my time doing. I just can’t put it into words yet. All I can say now is that it’s awesome and intense and crazy all at the same time. More on that later. Today, you get a new look at NYC.
One of the biggest warnings I got when I told people I was going to move out here was to watch out because people are mean, rude and “they’d rather step on you than help you up”. Well, I haven’t found that to be the case at all. In fact, yesterday when I was walking home a woman stopped me to tell me that I was “the cutest thing”. That’s right, she wasn’t being mean at all, she was just trying to brighten my day. Well, maybe she wasn’t trying to brighten my day. And maybe calling her a “woman” is a bit misleading. She was definitely female, in her mid-fifties and was horribly addicted to crack. But she wasn’t missing that many teeth… Maybe it would be easier to just say that she still had 7 of her teeth left. I can never remember how many teeth humans are supposed to have.
So no, she didn’t have the best of intentions. In fact the look in her eye was downright nerve-racking. I could almost see the cracked-out rat spinning in the wheel in her head, producing one thought – “if I suck on that, it will get me high, right?”
I can taste the vomit coming up the back of my throat again. Time to go home.
Comments
Comment from Quantumbyte
Date: June 2, 2006, 5:36 pm
Nonesense, everyone knows that crack-ho’s write the best financial software until they lose their last tooth. That’s why gus’s job is so challenging, ’cause it ain’t easy being a pimp.
Comment from platkat
Date: June 13, 2006, 6:48 pm
Seriously, people are REALLY nice in New York. Regular people, not just the crack-ho’s. I’ve never had so many people say hello to me and/or try to help me out in a new place, and I’ve lived in two southern states. I’m gonna like it there!

Comment from nate
Date: June 2, 2006, 7:23 am
Eww. On that note, I am looking forward to a post about Bloomberg, as I am guessing the crack-ho factor there hovers much closer to zero.