this Summer in NYC is on track to i think be one of the hottest in recorded history (after last year was one of the coolest, wettest). it brings back ugly memories of the summer of 1999 in NYC for me.
me and my roommate in spring had moved out from our apartment that had a roommate that went nuts: started yelling, cursing, crying, i called the cops on her.
- we found a nice place in Astoria Queens, but we found it thru a broker, i was in debt and was penniless. had several jobs: men's room attendant in swanky club, and went into a job that seems perfect for me but was and is a nightmare:
- tour guide job with a company that was eventually kicked out of the city. we had buses that caught on fire, drivers that were parolees that hated me because i didn't get tipped much ( i gave good tours, but didn't push customers to tip), no a.c. of course, , a comp;any that didn't give a shit about anything besides raking in money
- July was the hottest month on record in NYC, may still be, averaged in the high 80s, many days going into 100. almost never rained.
- i was such an environmentalist, and somewhat ignorant,, in that i thought that using a fan was a huge user of electricity, so i would broil in our place with no a.c or fan for most of the time, and the place was brick and we were up stairs.
- it was the last summer of my 20s and i was so busy earning all of $9 an hour, especially on weekends, i never got time off to go to the beach or anything. every chick i met was stuck up (surprise in NYC haha). .
- my roommate's parents came to stay with us for at least a week, maybe 2. no spare bedroom. examples of their annoying habits: the father would fart regularly, . the mother would answer the phone and give it to me when i told her i wasn't available. so 2 weeks, i was broke, and these folks came and lived there for free.
Going to back to some previous posts....solitude IS important. My wife and I live together. I think one of the reasons we have stayed together is because we have different schedules. We're not always crawling all over each other. I work nights 75% of the time, although not really late(not like NY bars..I get home around midnight). She works 9-5, generally. We have built-in alone time...and we both need it. I could not live with a roommate ever again. I have too many idiosyncrasies and would not have the patience to deal with another persons issues. I know it's sometimes hard to afford...but i'd rather live in a shack alone than a penthouse with a roommate.
ReplyDeletei agree. unfortunately for financial reasons over the years, cheaper for me to live with others.
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