today is day 1 of

boycotting cabs. oddly enough, this came at the hands of dumb ass people in New York City & not at the hands of all of the blatantly ignorant cab drivers that ive had in the past. so, it seems as though when you are in a rush your instinct is to hail a cab so that you get where youre going quickly. the issue with that is that you never ACTUALLY get there faster in a cab than you could get there in a "train" (train being subway, thats what we call em.) the fact of the matter is in new york, you NEVER know what traffic is going to be like. it only SEEMS as though you are moving faster because you arent taking the time to A) walk to the train B) wait for it once you have arrived on the platform & C) once you are IN the cab, you are enroute & you can make phone calls letting a person know that you are "running late and stuck in traffic." this doesnt neccesarily (and very rarely might i add) expedite the process of getting you where you need/want to be. so i get in a cab last night when i am leaving work, (my peace of mind isnt for sale anymore) i figure hell, i can spend the 12 dollars to get home a little quicker and in bed a little earlier. now, the bridge that takes me to queens is on 59th and 2nd, which is about 16 blocks and 7 aves away from where i started. aves here are basically REALLY long blocks. about.. 2-3 city blocks, make up an ave. anyway.... i get to 3rd ave and 55th street traffic is terrible so it costs me about 6 dollars to go from 55th street to 56 st. (yes, at 12:30am) people are assholes deliberately stopping in intersections so that oncoming traffic cant get through. so i FINALLY make it to 56th st. and we turn, fast forward 1 ave over and 8 MORE dollars...., i am fit to be tied when we reach the bridge only to discover that it is closed. both upper and lower levels under construction. i can feel the anger swelling inside me when the cab driver announces that we have to turn around and go back to 34st st. and a couple of aves. back the direction we came from. i know what you are thinking... why didnt i just get out and take a "train?" answer is, there arent any trains that run on 2nd or 3rd for that matter unless the bill passed today. you better believe that i had my ass down there today voting, you can also bank on the fact that i took a train there. as for day 1 of no cabs, it went well. as i left work today a cab slowed down and honked as if to offer me a ride, i casually threw him the middle finger while i shuffled through my ipod for some nice late night train ride music..., its gonna be a long cold winter trekking back & forth to the train station in the snow. hopefully i have better luck finding nice snowboots than i did rainboots.