New York Trip

Here's a little about my Trip to New York:

We went there on October 19^th (which was my Great-Aunt’s 94^th Birthday.)

While there we also celebrated my Grandmother’s 97^th Birthday (which was on October 4^th.)

My Great-Aunt had several Birthday Parties.

The day before she was thrown a Party by her Friends at the Retirement Condo. she lived in for many years.

Then on her actual Birthday she was given a Mini-Party (along with my Grandmother) by my Uncle, my Aunt, my Dad and Myself.) They loved their Presents and their Cards.

Then there was a Surprise (even for us) Party, also on Thursday, thrown by some of their High School Friends and their Family. My Grandmother graduated High School in 1943 and my Great-Aunt graduated High School in 1946 and they were excited to see some old Friends.

We all had a good and fun time.

 

While in New York I noticed it’s near impossible to get bags of any kind (not just the plastic kind, but paper bags and other kinds of bags.)

I thought it was funny that the Flower Department at Price Chopper (or as the New Yorkers now call it Market 32) they had an abundance of plastic wrap and plastic bags to wrap the Flowers in, but looked at me funny when I asked for any kind of bag (plastic or not) so the Flowers wouldn’t drip water everywhere after coming out of the display vases.

I also liked that in New York you are treated like a criminal when you go to Pharmacy and try and buy the real Sudafed, but you can easily buy Recreational Marijuana – with much less hassle. Note: Recreational Marijuana is still illegal where I live.

You feel like you need to go to a back alleyway to get a bag from Dealer while you can walk in anywhere and get Drugs out in the open.

I also enjoyed having to drive through 8 Traffic Circles in a 1 mile span of road to get into and out of my hotel. Whomever planned that was probably on Marijuana – when they couldn’t buy Sudafed.

Also, in New York most of the Food Places gave you a discount if you paid in cash and charged you more if you paid by card  - had I known I would have brough more cash. That’s on top of the high New York Sales Tax (both the State Sales Tax and the Local Sales Tax.)

Where I live we don’t charge you more for the same product whether you pay by card or in cash and we don’t have Sales Tax (Local or State) or Income Tax for that matter.

 

I did like bringing my Soda Cans and Plastic Bottles from my State (where they don’t charge you a deposit per Can/Bottle) and redeeming them in New York for 5 cents each – made a little extra money (to offset the extra charge to use a card to pay.)

 

I had a nice time catching-up with some of my High School Friends while in New York. It’s good to know I was once a carefree and fun guy.

 

It was nice to be in a place where Cell Phones actually work (they have never worked in my Town and there’s spotty service in other nearby towns  - because of our Mountains.)

I didn’t care for all the traffic everywhere we went to in New York though. My traffic here consists of some Bears, Wild Turkeys, Moose, Bobcats, Deer and Chickens.

 

All-in-all it was great to catch-up in-person with Friends and Family (especially my Grandmother and my Great-Aunt.)