The first night I saw a blonde haired young woman standing near the ticket vending machines at the subway entrance/exit, it dimly registered in my mind that she was waiting for a friend to exit. Her excessive eye makeup and her black and white outfit caught my eye. The image stayed with me. I doubted …
Author Archives: The Chronicler
More The Bus
And the bus drivers: I have heard Denzel Washington, James Earl Jones, Oprah announcing the next stops. And I have seen the doubles for Denzel, Whitney, and Roseanne Barr driving the busses. These persons are courteous, sane, competent and now and then especially humorous. One recent evening, I was dressed upper-west-side to attend a YCA …
The Bus
Why it’s great to ride the bus. #1. you can see where you’re going and where you want to get off. #2. it’s like a tourist ride for the price of the fare. #3. the plethora of persons that the bus gathers as it rolls along the streets. Every strata of life from the boisterous …
Zipcar
Clever concept. Rent a car by the hour, by the day. Price is inclusive fuel. The vehicle drives by unlocking it with a smart card and the key is permanently attached close by the ignition. Your responsibility to the following driver is to leave at least a 1/4 tank of fuel, a clean interior and …
Facelifts
Walking along Fifth Avenue one is confronted with the facelift factor on passing females. You can identify a facelift easily and the women resemble one another, as if members of the same family. But I have some questions for you sisters. #1 For whom are you doing it? If it is to keep your significant …
One Glove
Lost one glove. This never happens to me, but now I can never say never. I retraced my steps from yesterday, visited the two places on route and still no my glove. Did see a pair of white with black stripes, laid atop an in-window cooling unit, for someone to find, walked along side a …
Why Me?
Why am I the one observing what is going on around me? Because everyone else is walking and talking and texting and looking at their phones and not only about to walk into me, but are not seeing the events and people that I am seeing because I am not walking and texting and talking. …
I Know, I know, I know!
But I am compelled to continue along this important rabbit trail on which I find myself. Did you know that ‘after a user allows an application on any apple device to have access to location information, the app can copy the user’s entire photo library without any further notification, or warning…’ [this is from the …
Today
is an extra day in the year! Enjoy and use it in a special way. An extra day is like the 25th hour in a day.
I know, I know…
but do you? The company that owns twitter, yesterday, sold access to the last two years of tweets to an English company. Now every tweet you ever sent will be used to market to you goods and services. Are you aware of the public access of tweets? There is no privacy. The tweeter can only …