The 10 minute walk to Shake Shack took twice as long this afternoon, in part due to the 19 or so inches of snow on the ground & in part due to the two crazy men that (separately) insisted on talking to me on my way there. Why is it that babies (+ being pregnant) are an open invitation for conversations with strangers?!
Crazy #1 - immediately after I left our building & was walking down our street - suggested that I pull Quinn out of his stroller so that he could take a photo of us (I had my camera slung over my shoulder). Um, no thank you, he's sleeping. The man again suggested that we should take a photo. No thank you (keep walking). So, naturally, of course he kept walking alongside us & attempted to get into a conversation about whether or not he should buy my camera, or some other camera that he also knew nothing about (he was admittedly not a photographer & just wanted something to take snapshots with). I was only able to lose him once I got to 85th Street & had to turn west, where of course another kind gentleman immediately informed me that city moms don't know how to handle winter (excuse me?!) & he was an expert since he raised his kids in Boston. Please. I was out with my child in 19 inches of fresh snow, navigating rather successfully through foot-deep puddles & snowdrifts quite fine. I'd say that city mom's are actually quite sturdy & resourceful, & also have extra-tough skins thanks to needing to deal with obnoxious people such as he. Crazy #2 then proceeded to give me several minutes of unsolicited parenting advice (such as never, ever tell your children what to do - that sounds perfectly sensible, no?) before I told him that I had to go & meet my friends, managing to make him finally go away.
The snow! Oh my gosh, it's everywhere. Piles & piles of it. I like how it muffles the city & how everything is so quiet. I also like how going outside is kind of like going to the circus. I could have just sat on the sidewalk & watched people - people with strollers, kids with sleds, cars buried under enough snow to be stuck for days, sidewalks reduced to a fourth of their normal width, everyone slipping & sliding. No one seemed to be at work today. It was a mess out there, but it was pretty!
Note to self: Never go to Shake Shack when it's a snow day for all of the students on the Upper East Side. Julie, Kelsey & I managed to get a table, but it was a battleground of mothers & children in that place today.
4 comments:
I'm loving seeing New York so covered in snow.
oh man, all that snow! I can't even believe it and really amazed that you went out in it all. but, the sun is shining!
kind of fun, right?!
i remember pushing wyatt through a foot of snow, up hill (both ways of course) in a total blizzard to his dr appt at mt sinai. it was a nightmare. why didn't i just take a cab? i was an idiot. i think i had lived there for like 2 months at that point.
It does look pretty. Sort of.
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