notes i found while packing

[xfer]

from a bus trip to NYC a couple of years ago, which I think I posted about here. I was listening to a couple of sixteen-year-olds who met on the bus talking. the guy was a total idiot and the girl was kind of eating it up.

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(as we're going over a bridge)

Guy: It's cool how in history a lot of important things happened on bridges.

Girl: Oh...

(very long pause)

Girl: ...like what?

Guy: Uh, well, I'm thinking....hello? Hang on, cell phone....okay, finished...just...well...I used to be real shallow until like a year ago. So.

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Guy: What language did you take?

Girl: Took Latin.

Guy: I wouldn't want to take that...it's a dead language.

Girl: Well, uh, it's the basis of so many languages!

Guy: Yeah...English...Spanish...Russian...

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Guy: American music sucks. It's just...not there.

Girl: Totally.

 

[xfer]

this is also the trip, I think, which featured a loud, obnoxious nineteen-year-old idiot about six rows up who kept shouting about how he was Albanian, motherfucker, et cetera.

 

[azal]

I remember that that was a great thread, titled something like, "I understand azal's hate now"

 

[Helm]

Guy: Yeah...English...Spanish...Russian...

ugh

 

[FalseTodd]

I was taking Le Grezhound to NYC once and this german exchange student was prattling on in the row ahead of me about how excited she was to finally see you New York. 3 or so hours into the trip, we were on 95S and she starts gasping and oohing and aahing and "Man you see all the pictures but then when you see it in person it's just so amazing!!!!" and I look up and we are driving past Coop City.

 

[xfer]

hahaha every time i go to NYC i think about how gross coop city is!

 

[minxnim]

does anyone actually even consider coop city part of NYC other than the unfortunates that live there?

 

[0sm0se]

I grew up 20 minutes from the GW and I've never even heard of coop city.

 

[xfer]

Statue of Liberty, Staten Island Ferry, Coop City, Katz's and Tiffany's! Central Park! The Brooklyn Bridge! The Empire State! Where Dylan lived!

 

[FalseTodd]

yes i could not help the thought that the bright lights of the city she was dazzled by were bare bulbs swinging over no furniture in a 42nd floor apartment inhabited by 12.

 

[minxnim]

actually most of coop city is really expensive now, how weird is that?

 

[NAD]

Look kids, Jean!

Yeah I'm totally left coast, but no longer shallow like I was until like a year ago.

 

[FalseTodd]

minx: proximity to the big electronics store, maybe? jeez, what's going to get gentrified next, greenwich?

 

[minxnim]

im pretty sure if someone can convince realtors they can call it NYC, it'll get expensive.

 

[FalseTodd]

man i have the Onion article about the hipsters moving into greenwich, ct and forcing out the upper-uppers all written and ready to go

 

[minxnim]

hahaha