Today was a major fiasco! Headed into the city to meet a friend at the Met. Too late, I realized I'd forgotten my phone. Well, I figured, I'll meet my friend where we always meet 🤞 I get there, & the damn Met is closed on Wednesday ( how did we not know that? Friend is a member) So, home again. Waste of time, money & friendship. Arghh!!
@gemswinc Oh no, I'm sorry. That sounds very disappointing.
@misslovelymess Oh yes definitely, train 🚂
@gemswinc I do enjoy taking the train when I'm close and going into Manhattan. My old job used to be in Westchester County, and the I found the Metro North to be very good for relaxing.
@misslovelymess I was born in Westchester County.Small world. Shorter train ride of course, than from out here
@gemswinc I've never done the LIRR (if I remember, you give weather updates from the island). I have driven from Long Island to Manhattan, do not recommend. Ugh. I used to spend a ton of time in Dix Hills for work.
@gemswinc One time I drove from Brooklyn to Wading River, during rush hour. I wanted to die.
@misslovelymess Of course you wanted to die lol! I am directly south of Wading River. Ha, ha! I know what you were up against!
@misslovelymess You know LI then, I'll be darned.
I haven't driven in, in a long time. If there is no traffic
🤣🤣🤣 It is a straight shot from the LIE through Queens Midtown Tunnel. I'd only try, these days, early Sunday morning. I drove cab in NYC when I was 20. Night shift six months.
@gemswinc Except for that one time, I would drive in around 9pm, and drive out around 2-3pm. That usually worked pretty well for me.
Except for whenever a POTUS was in town, which seemed like very often.
@misslovelymess Sounds like good timing!
@gemswinc Also, do not recommend driving to or in Staten Island. 0/5 do not recommend.
@misslovelymess Ha, ha, haven't in years! Verazano Bridge 😱 Don't like driving much anymore anyway
@gemswinc I did it wayyyy back before GPS was a thing. One of my first trips for work. Trying to read Mapquest, while on I-95 in Jersey for the first time, I was terrified.
@misslovelymess OMG! I can imagine, but young! There's all the difference
@gemswinc @misslovelymess I've been sort of surprised at how many folks I've run into on here, who I met offline.
But then, it's like with used book stores: You will see your book again, because it's circulating among other book-lovers and you all gravitate towards the same spaces.
Nice, smart people who didn't like regular social media concentrate here. There's less of us (for now) than elsewhere, but of course we're going to run into like minds!
@AskTheDevil Like minds and rational conversations are some of the many blessings of CoSo @misslovelymess
@gemswinc @AskTheDevil I don't know if I know anyone here from my real life, but I have met people on here, in real life.
@misslovelymess @AskTheDevil I've met no one here, but I did meet folks from Twitter, several. Two became good friends, one has since passed.
@gemswinc Very sorry to hear that.
@gemswinc @misslovelymess I mean people I met in offline situations even before social media existed have later showed up here.
@gemswinc @misslovelymess What I really like here _also_ (in addition to all the like minded) is that there are so many _unlike_ minds from me, but they're civil and loving and they'll share how they think in a way that might actually help me expand my mind or change my point of view.
This place has done much to rekindle my faith in people.
@gemswinc I hope you were at least on the train and not driving.