Freedom’s Just Another Word
Posted on Thursday, May 21st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
an East Village street, 5:30 p.m., Wednesday
Last night, I enjoyed drinks al fresco with some former coworkers. It was a balmy 80-some degrees, perfect for street-watching and beer drinking at an outdoor cafe I’d never have snagged a table at had I gotten out of work at 8 p.m. (Had I, in fact, been Your Employed Daughter.) To one side sat a table of bankerish types in baseball caps and polo shirts discussing COBRA and the benefits of moving home to Jersey. On the other were some smoking East Villagers who generously shared a light with my former EIC and discussed the proper amount of space one should give between tables and smoking area. At one point, a fellow in a pink button-down offered us a dollar for a cigarette. I said, “Can you make it $2? We’re unemployed!” His response: “So am I!” And the former hedge fund manager got a Parliament for free.
Oh, 2009! How you’ve evened our playing field. Unemployment: bringing douchebags and media types together at last!
LOL re: douchebags. (Seriously, LOL. I refuse to type that unless it actually happened.) Glad to hear the wall has come down between douchebags and media types, but remember that doesn’t mean it’s ok to start dating them. A little canoodling to ease the pain, fine. Just remember that the wall was there for a reason. xoxo
This street scene is too quiet. Think back to those experts in Georgetown, with their cardboard signs, boom boxes, stools, and ice chests – they picked busy streets on which to set up shop, and they panhandled well.
You’ll need to find a busier street in which to extract a living!