My trip was nearing a close and I realized I hadn’t seen the Statue of Liberty yet. Surprisingly, I wasn’t too excited to do so and honestly would have rather gone to the United Nations Headquarters, but I knew I’d be pissed if I didn’t so I just jumped on a Subway first thing in the morning and headed to the Staten Island Ferry: Free and goes right past the monument.
At about 9, I walked across the street to Dunkin Donut’s (where I had ordered Uber Eats from the previous day) and got some donuts, a breakfast sandwich and coffee. I had showered the night before so it only took me like 3 hours to do my hair and makeup. By then, I had about 15 min to check out and this dude would not let me escape the smoking area. He was adamant on me being on his podcast (about fucking drones of all things lol) so I gave him my number and told him I would virtually someday – Peace!!
After packing, I realized I had 8 hours till my plane left and there’s no way in hell I was carrying this shit everywhere!! After I dragged all my shit upstairs, working up a sweat, I was told that there are lockers in the cellar. I drag all my shit back down to the cellar to find out that the lockers are only taking cash at the moment. All stressed out, I started digging through all my bags and I actually found four dollars. I got some Chinese guy to give me a five for my four dollars (2 of which were silver dollars lol). I put the five dollars in the machine and it spit it out a ticket. I put one bag in the locker and go to get my other bag and it clicks shut. I look at the ticket and there are big capital letters spelling out the words” You can only use this code once”. I was fucked. I kept looking at the Chinese guy and back at my locker and the ticket (I think subconsciously hoping he would save me but I don’t fucking know), until he finally left. At this point I really didn’t know what to do. I probably would have just thrown my shit in a locker and hoped for the best under normal circumstances, but I had my work laptop with me and that would be just my luck that it would get stolen. So in my frustrations, I sat down on the floor and cracked open a white claw and began editing photos on my phone. I did that for about 15 to 20 minutes until an employee came down and just stared at me. They probably saw me on the camera and was like -what the fuck is this bitch doing?? lol. I told her what happened and she asked for my ticket. Of course, I’m all frazzled and shit and can’t find it for about 10 minutes but when I do, she ends up opening up the locker and just tells me I have to go to the front desk when I come back and they will unlock it. Thank the Lord Jesus, I was off once again!
Wandered around for a bit and then caught the subway.
About 15 min into the Subway ride I looked at my Google Maps and I’m about a quarter of the way there but that distance North, rather than the southern direction i needed to go. So, I jump off at the next stop, go up the stairs, down the stairs, and right onto the “downtown” train without a hiccup. About 56 min later, I arrived on the Ferry’s front steps. I got myself a blended Margarita with an extra shot and waited about 8 min. for the ferry to arrive. As I expected, the Statue of Liberty was cool…. but I wasn’t as intrigued as I suppose I should have been. I was more interested bullshitting with the Government employees that operated the Ferry and the Coast Guard with machine guns following us via their speed boat.
(Side note: I am determined to find out if there’s like Coast Guard bases or something I could groupie at – Coast Guard is fucking hot!!)
I was chatting my life away with people on the boat when one of them questioned my intelligence, or lack thereof, seeing as it was about 4 and my plane was leaving at 7.
Touche’ sir.
I roundtripped that bitch and subway’d it back to the hostel with no hiccups (picking up a traditional New York style pizza with SARDINES along the way). I had to pay $7.08 in Apple Cash and $22.62 on my debit. I had $27.60 left in my bank. I left him a $10 tip (😬😬😬) and bounced. **Hopefully he got it** 😂😂😂😭😭😭
I grabbed my shit and checked my email for A customer support response from the Curb app. Found one. Though it was unhelpful in any technical sense, for some reason I was able to set up a whole new Curb account, adding PayPal as my preferred method of payment ha ha ha! Luck at last!! Caught a cab and 5 o’clock traffic. Luckily my plane wasn’t scheduled to leave till almost 9, not seven as I for some reason thought. Because of that, I was able to do all my notary training at the airport and catch my plane with no stress (Except when I couldn’t pay for my drink because they didn’t have tap and pay. But I just ended up just paying waitress directly via Venmo With the $50 I got from Tawny, via my ghetto PayPal exchange I initiated again after arriving to the airport and realizing I needed more than six dollars).
Boarded.
First hour I slept. Woke up and spent my remaining money on snack boxes, devouring them as if this is the only time I will ever not have to puke after I eat😬😬🤤🤤 The remaining flight was so fucking uncomfortable and cold that the next three hours were just miserable, yet didn’t take too long. On the way home, we almost ran out of gas and I didn’t have any cigarettes so it took us an extra hour trying to find an open gas station and soothe my nic fit. Got about three hours of sleep and then went to work the next morning.
Fucking cats could have cared less about my arrival. I’m still a dog person.
I think it was really interesting that the only place I wore a mask in the state of New York, was the public library. Oh, and the airport of course lol… at least most the time. I expected New York to be more ”covidy”… I didn’t think I was going to be able to get into anywhere without a vaccine card and a mask and it wasn’t true. I only got asked for my vaccine card once and in retrospect, realized that it was because I was by myself (in glasses, looking all sketch and shit) and they thought I was like undercover or something because they didn’t ask anybody else. FYI, I didn’t copy my friend’s vaccine card and put my name on it so I had one just in case… sorry, not sorry🙄
One other cool thing is they had Covid testing stations set up all over the city. It would literally take three seconds to sign up and it’s free and then they test you and you get results within hours. I was once again negative for the antibody test and the actual Covid test …
A Single White Female 