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The Rambling Insomniac
Tom is a 25+ year resident of Germantown and the surrounding community. He currently lives in Hubertus with his wife and two small kids on a hobby farm near Bark Lake. Tom's blog will likely not save the world, but hopefully, you'll get some enjoyment from his ramblings.
Rats! The Musical?
By Tom White
Thursday, Dec 13 2007, 04:45 PM
My wife Stephanie and I needed a weekend away, so we spent last weekend in New York City being typical tourists. We visited all the usual sites including Times Square, Central Park, Chinatown, Little Italy, The World Trade Center, Rockefeller Center, 5th Avenue, The Statue of Liberty, etc. We also enjoyed typical New York customs such as eating hot dogs on the sidewalk, seeing a Broadway musical, ordering corned beef sandwiches at a deli, sipping coffee at Starbucks, riding the subway, etc. but, both Stephanie and I each had other goals in mind for the weekend.
As for me, my goal was to be mugged. Seriously! I purposefully kept a small wad of money in one pocket just in case it happened. Not that I was looking to get shot or anything like that, I just thought it would be cool to be mugged in New York City. Well, that never happened, which is a testament to great job they’ve done in New York in reducing crime. We traveled everywhere in that city, at all hours of the day and night, and never once did we feel unsafe.
So, if you’re thinking I’m weird for wanting to be mugged, consider my spouse. Steph’s goal for the weekend was to see a rat! Every street we would walk down, she’d look down into the alleys and down into the garbage collection areas just to see if she could find one. And so comes our last day in New York, and we’ve had no rat sightings as of yet. But then, by a mere stroke of the Rat God’s luck, on our last subway ride before we had to catch our flight home, it happened. We were coming down the stairs towards a subway platform where a bunch of other tourists were gathered. Suddenly, some gasps and shrieks came from the crowd and fingers starting pointing to the subway tracks. There, in all their New York City glory, were two huge rats running down the tracks. I rushed and tried to get a picture, but the dirty rats scurried off before I could. Just then I realized that I’m just as crazy as my wife, as I was just as thrilled as she was to see a couple of rats.
I guess our trip can be summarized like this:
Hotel Room - $495 a night
2 Tickets to a Broadway musical - $500
Roundtrip airfare for two - $630
Seeing two rats running down the subway tracks in New York – Priceless
Maybe next year, we’ll just take a trip to the Milwaukee County Zoo?
G’Night G’Town
Ben, you’re always running here and there,
You feel you’re not wanted anywhere.
If you ever look behind,
and dont like what you find,
theres something you should know.
Youve got a place to go
(youve got a place to go).~ “Ben”, by Michael Jackson
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