Finally, NY!

[oyceter]

Finally, I am in New York and fully conscious! My perpetual insomnia reared its ugly head again, meaning I didn't sleep during the red eye, but worse still was that some autopilot equipment broke and the fog in New York was so bad that they couldn't land without it. So we circled... and circled... and circled... and then ran out of gas. So we flew to Connecticut and landed there. And stayed there for two hours until the fog dissipated, then flew BACK to New York.

Then I decided given my complete lack of sleep and annoyed-ness about the flight delay meant I would splurge on a taxi instead of taking the subway. Unfortunately, I ended up with the most incompetent taxi driver ever, who did not know where coffeeandink's address was. This would not be the bad part, sadly. Since he could not figure it out, he made me call her, but when I handed over the phone, he did not know any of the landmarks she mentioned. I finally told him to forget it and drive me to the subway station nearest to the airport. He then got lost doing so and pulled over not once, but twice, to ask completely random bystanders how to get to the subway station. Then when I finally got off, it turned out it wasn't even the right station, but at least it was on the same line.

I do not expect taxi drivers to know every street in their city, but if they don't know where something is, I generally would think they would have a better strategy than to drive around in circles, make the customer call her friend, then ask random bystanders. Even I usually have a better strategy than that.

But! At least now I am with Mely and deepad!

Comments

[oracne]

I suspect that was not a very good taxi driver.

[oyceter]

ME TOO.

[vehemently]

That's a duuuuumb taxi driver.

In other news, how do you like the walls in the bedroom?

[oyceter]

(Trying not to use "dumb" in my DW/LJ, sorry!)

Very incompetent YES.

The walls are very pretty! As are the newly blue bookshelves!

[shewhohashope]

I HATE YOU ALL. And that taxi driver!

[oyceter]

We love you back ;). I also tried siccing a Brigitte Lin crossdressing movie on Deepa!

[shana]

So it was your plane making that buzzing overhead! (I live under the holding pattern.)

[oyceter]

If it was at 5 in the morning and then 7 in the morning, yes!

[sparkymonster]

WAAAHT? NYC is a grid. How could the cabbie get that lost?

[oyceter]

In his defense (I can't believe I am saying that), he was going to not-Manhattan. But still! Stopping people on the street!

[rachelmanija]

I see your travel luck still holds! Was that better or worse than the wrong booking the time-before-last we went to Taiwan, I wonder?

[oyceter]

Worse! At least then I could go home to wait. Oh also, this time Deepa's metrocard was out so we were bad and she went through the turnstile with me, except a cop caught us. So he took both our licenses and spent half an hour running a name check on us, half the time just standing there with our licenses in his hand. Longest time ever to write up two tickets! My theory was that he was a new cop still doing everything by the book, or that he wanted to impress the two cops across the tracks or something, or intimidate us.

And then when we returned to Mely's apartment, there was a line of giant mutant ants up the wall. That is probably my fault too!

[rachelmanija]

Good God! Well, clearly, the cop was your fault. I've seen them kick people back for doing that, but never actually ticket anyone.

The ants are certainly your fault too. If you're staying over, you should probably sleep with covers over your head. And don't look at the ceiling.

[oyceter]

I know! Also, if he had to ticket, could he have not written them in a few minutes instead of standing around for over half an hour tapping our licenses in his hand? Totally my bad luck.

... now I am trying not to think of things lurking in corners of M's apartment as I try to go to bed.