This column, like all your wonderful columns, hit me in the face on so many levels!!!
First, because of my job and its bizarre hours and multiple shifts, I drink a lot of hot tea to keep me going. I take the train from Flatbush to Grand Central, and get off there to walk up to my job at 59th Street to get exercise (I do the reverse walk on desolate streets at 12:30 AM), so I usually have to urinate at one point. So, there is a Starbucks at 53rd Street and 3rd, with a bathroom also at the public plaza downstairs if there is a long line at that Starbucks. There is also a Starbucks on 1st Avenue, between 53rd & 54th Street. These three options are my most common choices. Today, I had to take the #2 train to Times Square to the #7 to Grand Central, and used the large bathroom at the lower level there. Because everybody is evacuating the city for the long holiday weekend, there was, as usual, a tremendous line at the ladies room, and no line at the mens room. I was washing up in the mens room, and a woman happened to sidle up to the wash basin next to me - I guess that line was just too damn long!!!
As a doorman, the dog issue is an issue very close to my heart, as I constantly see people have their dogs defecate and urinate directly in front of my lobby entrace door. I also have to clean up dog feces that people leave there, as well as residual feces that they do not clean up well.
Ironically, I WALK DOGS FOR TENANTS in the building where I work, before, during, and after my shift - they pay me for this, as well as the cat care I give to multiple tenants. When I walk a dog, rest assured that dog is NOT URINATING OR DEFECATING ANYWHERE NEAR THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO ANY BUILDING, NOR IN ANYBODY'S IMMEDIATE PATHWAY TO THEIR BUILDING.
I am actually convinced that at one point, I will be jailed for manslaughter, and Ann Marie will have to visit me Upstate, even though I'm too pretty for prison, and will be passed around like a ragdoll for cigarettes. My manslaughter conviction will be for killing a sloppy dog walker, or a bike rider, moped rider, electric board rider, or scooter rider, but the latter four are a whole other story, of which you probaby have a few yourself!!!
Oh, Mark!!!
This column, like all your wonderful columns, hit me in the face on so many levels!!!
First, because of my job and its bizarre hours and multiple shifts, I drink a lot of hot tea to keep me going. I take the train from Flatbush to Grand Central, and get off there to walk up to my job at 59th Street to get exercise (I do the reverse walk on desolate streets at 12:30 AM), so I usually have to urinate at one point. So, there is a Starbucks at 53rd Street and 3rd, with a bathroom also at the public plaza downstairs if there is a long line at that Starbucks. There is also a Starbucks on 1st Avenue, between 53rd & 54th Street. These three options are my most common choices. Today, I had to take the #2 train to Times Square to the #7 to Grand Central, and used the large bathroom at the lower level there. Because everybody is evacuating the city for the long holiday weekend, there was, as usual, a tremendous line at the ladies room, and no line at the mens room. I was washing up in the mens room, and a woman happened to sidle up to the wash basin next to me - I guess that line was just too damn long!!!
As a doorman, the dog issue is an issue very close to my heart, as I constantly see people have their dogs defecate and urinate directly in front of my lobby entrace door. I also have to clean up dog feces that people leave there, as well as residual feces that they do not clean up well.
Ironically, I WALK DOGS FOR TENANTS in the building where I work, before, during, and after my shift - they pay me for this, as well as the cat care I give to multiple tenants. When I walk a dog, rest assured that dog is NOT URINATING OR DEFECATING ANYWHERE NEAR THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO ANY BUILDING, NOR IN ANYBODY'S IMMEDIATE PATHWAY TO THEIR BUILDING.
I am actually convinced that at one point, I will be jailed for manslaughter, and Ann Marie will have to visit me Upstate, even though I'm too pretty for prison, and will be passed around like a ragdoll for cigarettes. My manslaughter conviction will be for killing a sloppy dog walker, or a bike rider, moped rider, electric board rider, or scooter rider, but the latter four are a whole other story, of which you probaby have a few yourself!!!
Always a pleasure!!!
Glenn