a girl, a city

Thanks?

It’s funny that sharingtime says New Yorkers don’t say thank you to bus drivers, because just this morning I noticed the way that every person getting off the bus said some form of “thank you”. Even the Tough Guys, who just sort of grunted it, but were still unmistakably expressing their appreciation.

I don’t think all New Yorkers are jerks, I think it was just Lee.

sharingtime:

It took me a while to get used to people saying thank you to the bus drivers as they exit the bus here in Colorado. Now I’m doing it too. I’ve never said thank you to a bus driver in my life. In New York, there’s an unspoken rule about not talking to other human beings on public transit, transit employees being no different.

The words feel weird coming out of my mouth. I’m used to being polite and saying thank you to people in the service industry, but bus drivers are not exactly directly serving you. I’m a little freaked out by my own courtesy. I can’t really imagine any other situation where this would hold true.

“Thank you for performing that life-saving operation on me, Dr. Jewsurgeon.”

“Why, you’re welcome Lee.”

“Ok, I feel gross now.”

All of my “users similar to [me]” on OKCupid are in their forties. What does this say about me?

I ordered Indian for dinner tonight at around quarter after 8. I called because yesterday I dropped my phone in the bathtub, so they have no way of getting in touch with me, and the guy on the phone is all “don’t worry he’ll call you when he gets there”. Well NO HE WON’T I HAVE A DIFFERENT NUMBER. I said this as politely as I could. “Oh well he will ring the doorbell”. Well the doorbell is inside the first door and very tricky, most delivery people have not been able to figure it out. He refuses to take the number, refuses to listen to my explanation of location of doorbell, tells me don’t worry about fifty times.

It is now after 10 and still no food. I am tempted to call again but if they are just late I will feel like a jerk. At this point I am almost ready to just say fuck it and I will eat six month old applesauce that has been sitting in my non-working fridge and ARRGGH WHY WOULDN’T YOU JUST TAKE MY OTHER NUMBER JUST FOR MY OWN PIECE OF MIND YOU FUCKER IS IT REALLY THAT HARD TO WRITE DOWN TEN NUMBERS ON A PIECE OF PAPER FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY.

My dad called to complain that his lastname.com e-mail was not forwarding because I recently switched hosting companies, and things are set up differently. So he’s like “I missed all sorts of important e-mails!”

And the only person who e-mails him is my Uncle Pete. So I pointed that out.

“Well there were some good forwarded jokes in there!”

I Fail at Decisions

I am hungry. I can tell because I haven’t eaten since this morning and my head has started to hurt, and I did not drink too much last night, so it’s probably not that.

Do I want pizza for dinner or Indian?

Pepperoni pizza sounds mighty tempting, but I am incapable of ordering a pizza with just one topping, and do I want banana peppers or mushrooms as the second topping? Or maybe branch out and do something crazy like black olives. If I get black olives, that would probably be solid with mushrooms and hold the pepperoni entirely.

If I do get pizza, should I get it from a chain or one of the local spots? Which of the local spots are good again, I can never remember. I’m pretty sure that logo is from the one with the pizza that tasted like ass and made me feel ill for a weekend, but it might have been that one with the green letters. Hmm… if I’m ordering local anyway, maybe I will try a meatball hero instead. I wonder how their wings are, I hate when they bread them and still call them “Buffalo”. Yecch. Maybe a salad to go with. Regular, ceasar, or antipasto. That all sounds good. 

Indian sounds good too. I’m so psyched that an Indian restaurant added itself to my Delivery.com options last night, because that was some of the best Vindaloo I have had on this continent. Yeah, mmm, Indian. Although, I did JUST have it last night. Are they going to think I am weird and crazy for ordering twice in a row? I will get something different this time, but still. Let me google every single dish that I am unfamiliar with on the menu, which is everything but Vindaloo and Railway curry and naan.

[Forty minutes later]

Hm, yeah, Vindaloo sounds good again. Maybe a little garlic naan. Although I also had curry for lunch today. Vietnamese curry, but still, curry is curry. Ugh that was pretty gross though, tasted like ginger or something. That other shrimp thing I had at the Vietnamese place the other day was pretty solid though.

Why am I even limiting myself to just two options? I should see where else is delivering besides just pizza and Indian. Maybe do something different. Not Chinese, I definitely don’t want that. Although it has been awhile since I’ve had some decent lo mein. That might not go amiss. I’m still sort of in a pizza mood though…

THIS IS WHAT I GO THROUGH EVERY GODDAMN DAY OF MY LIFE.