Only in New York City

Time for another edition of "Only in New York City...."

Only in New York City would the bus driver on your express in to the city get pulled over for almost taking a cop out.

Because I'm living at home in New Jersey I will take the 165 Express bus in to the city. But it is anything but an express ride. The schedule says it should take 30 minutes but it can take anywhere from 60 to 90 minutes to get in to the city on the bus.

I normally catch the bus outside of the Hackensack police station where my Mom drops me off when she gets off of work. She thinks that is the "safest" stop because it's right by the cops. Well for some reason a cop car is always illgally parked outside the station and usually near the bus stop where the bus needs to pull in to pick up passengers. So once again a cop was parking illegally near the bus stop and the bus driver damn near took the cop and his car door off. It wasn't totally the bus driver's fault. But the cop calls all his cop buddies and there is a cop pow wow in front of the station. They hold up the bus and everyone on it and give the driver a ticket. So of course my express bus was even later than normal.

Only in New York City would Starbucks run out of the strawberry stuff for my strawberries and cream frappaccino.

As most of y'all know I'm not a coffee drinker. But there are two drinks I will get at Starbucks...a chai tea latte or strawberrry and cream frappaccino. Well I have been having a strawberry and cream frappaccino craving and every Starbucks I went to was out of the strawberry stuff so I had to order something else...but I still had the craving. I went to the Starbucks on 43rd and 9th...they were out...the Starbucks on 42nd and 8th...they were out...the Starbucks on 38th and 7th...they were out...I finally found my drink at the Starbucks on 39th and 8th.

Only in New York City would I be able to walk to four Starbucks in search of my Strawberries and Cream Frappaccino.

Yes I have become a Starbucks addict. And there are so many of them that I was able to purposely walk a route where I knew I would pass at least 3 of them. The fourth one turned out to be a charm. But just goes to show it's a damn shamw how many Starbucks are in NYC and what a craving will drive a person to do. I wonder if there are more Starbucks in NYC than there are in Seattle.

Only in New York City can someone charge $1275 for a 450 sq ft, 1 bedroom apartment.

My apartment hunt continues. I have put in an application at one place but as I wait for them to process my stuff (which it has officially been a week) I'm still looking at other places. When I call or email someone from Craig's List I always ask the square footage of the apartment because I'm not going to waste my time seeing an apt that I know will not even fit my bedroom set. So I responded to one ad and the guy wanted $1275 for a 450 sq ft, 1 bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I think he was charging so much because of the location. It's in a new building in an up and coming part of Brooklyn near a new Target and all kinds of shopping places. But I'm not going to pay that much to live in Brooklyn when I can pay the same amount for a bigger spot in Jersey City. Equal distance if you ask me....but not equal cost.

Tune in for the next edition of "Only in New York City..."