Enjoy the Sunshine! If You Dare...

First, I'd like to give props to the old ball and chain for his first post. I'm sure no one is surprised that it is about intramural soccer.

Second, I'd like to discuss the glory and curse of springtime in Manhattan.

It's about 75 degrees today, one of the first nice days in the city, and the world is abuzz with joy and new sunglasses.

Coporate monsters are filling the streets, buying $10 lunches, and scouring Bryant Park for a place to dine.

"What a good idea," they cry. "Let's eat lunch in the Park today!"

"Surely, no one else will have this highly original idea, and if they do, the
weather will put me in such a great mood that I certainly won't show violence
towards my fellow man while standing in line for a burrito."

Oh you simple, Vitamin D-deprived souls.

I've never seen my street so crowded. I've never seen a line for a lunch spot wrap around the corner. I've never seen so many people pretend, through gritted teeth, to be enjoying the weather. It's just too much.

I am one of the chosen few who is not enraged today. But then again I have the common sense to eat at my desk and avoid the deathmatch ring that is Bryant Park. I may run into trouble later, however, when I need to get to the train station carrying two large suitcases full of winter clothes that won't fit in my tiny, over-priced apartment.

Gotta love the city in the springtime.