Traffic Jam on 83rd
There was a traffic jam on my block today. Really. Although most of you haven't been to my apartment or seen how out of the way it is, so you wouldn't understand how unusual this was.
The source of the problem was a heating oil truck stopped near the corner at 83rd and York. (Lots of furnaces around here run on oil, and the trucks pump it into basements from valves in the sidewalk.) And being New York, there are always cars lining both sides of the street, so there wasn't much room to get by. A brave (or crazy) driver might have attempted it. Except the next vehicle back was a tour bus of some sort. And the cars kept going from there, with a few taxis and a delivery truck mixed in, all the way to the end of the block.
I laughed the rest of the way home. I'm sure the people in the cabs who were paying 10 cents a minute to sit in traffic weren't laughing with me.
There was a traffic jam on my block today. Really. Although most of you haven't been to my apartment or seen how out of the way it is, so you wouldn't understand how unusual this was.
The source of the problem was a heating oil truck stopped near the corner at 83rd and York. (Lots of furnaces around here run on oil, and the trucks pump it into basements from valves in the sidewalk.) And being New York, there are always cars lining both sides of the street, so there wasn't much room to get by. A brave (or crazy) driver might have attempted it. Except the next vehicle back was a tour bus of some sort. And the cars kept going from there, with a few taxis and a delivery truck mixed in, all the way to the end of the block.
I laughed the rest of the way home. I'm sure the people in the cabs who were paying 10 cents a minute to sit in traffic weren't laughing with me.
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