When Shopping Carts Fly

Oh boy…do I have stories to tell.

First off, I must say the glamour of living in our fantabulous apartment is wearing off. The experience is still fabulous but the living is a bit below Kyle and I’s posh standards. Our apartment is still OK. I think I had over-hyped it in my head after seeing so many dud places. The building smells like the funk and the highlight of my day was buying about $30 worth of Yankee Candle air fresheners and candles. Last night the cable went out and as I write this 24 hours later still no cable. At 11 PM last night there were firemen going into the building across the street and a fire engine parked out side our building which had us falling asleep to annoying red flashing strobe lights in our room. The loud obnoxious garbage men & their trucks woke us up periodically throughout the night, as usual. And this morning poor Kyle took a cold shower. I haven’t had a cold shower experience but I sure felt bad for Kyle.

I’m sure it sounds like I’m complaining but I’m really not. This is only a ten week gig and it’s definitely worth the cramped, old environment for the experience. It’s like CAMPING! “Roughing it”, I’d say…..

Ok, so go to the bathroom now because I have a story that may make you pee your pants.

Kyle and I are at Bed, Bath & Beyond buying the smelly goods to keep this place from smelling like the funk. We’re looking at some items and I round the corner to look down to the lower level of the 2-story store. In front of me is a lady at the top of the escalator who apparently needs to get to the first floor. Well, instead of looking around for an elevator that could accomodate her and her cart I guess she decides to make an executive decision to try out her own method of transport. I notice she’s balancing her shopping cart (as in the large grocery store-style push carts) ever so delicately on the first escalator step and before I knew what was happening she just releases the cart as it is balancing 2 wheels on the escalator and 2 wheels in mid air. My jaw drops to the ground. Is this woman an alien from another planet?! I see her hand fly to her mouth (she must've realized at this moment sending her cart down an escalator was a very bad idea) and my hand flies to my mouth in horror. We watch the cart go handle over wheels down the escalator …BOOM….KABOOM….BOOM….SPLAT! Everything in her cart AND the cart itself tumbles to the 1st floor. Thank goodness no one was on the escalator or at the bottom! She was super embarrassed and I was trying OH SO hard not to laugh as she turned to see if anyone saw her. Oh, yeah, lady...I saw the whole thing!. All the BBB employees were rushing to the scene of the stupidity and as I slinked away I started laughing so hard I was crying and one of the employees who passed me knew exactly what I was laughing at and started laughing uncontrollably as well.

Kyle and I laughed and laughed all the way home…the things you see in New York!!