This will be a short post about two LONG days.
RQS and I had plans for Saturday, First we'd get up, do some car shopping, buy a new fan, then go into NYC to see an Off Broadway play. Well, we got up late, and proceeded over to Walmart to buy the fan. And then we descended into the hell of 95° heat and high humidity....
My car has problems with hot weather and slow traffic. We made the mistake of trying to drive to Pelham to catch a train into NYC from that station, as it has more service than the stations I usually travel from. Well, After navigating around a few traffic jams and turning off the car to avoid overheating, we reached Palham station. And then we found out that the train had lost power, and nothing was moving on the line. So our next thought was to take the subway. We put the kibosh on this option, as they were busing people between stations to accommodate construction work going on. At this point, we abandoned thought of using our tickets, and decided to go out to eat in Westchester.
On our way up to Kalbi House (a Korean restaurant on Central Avenue), I called Vicki to suggest that we get together for coffee after our dinner. Now that our plans were complete, we made it to dinner and spent too much for decent food. (The food was good, but the tastes were not memorable. Something was missing from all the dishes, and we couldn't put a handle on it.) From there, we went to meet Vicki and the "fun" began.
Vicki and Sue got along well until Vicki got into dominant preacher mode. At that point, she started rubbing me the wrong way. Although I have issues with my weight, I don't need someone preaching to me what I must do to lose weight. What works for her may not work for me. This was the first time that I raised my voice with her, and hurt her feelings. Although I won't go into the details, it took me a while talking with RQS to process what I felt at that time.
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The next day had us going back to RQS's place. It was almost as hot as the day before, and we had to deal with even more traffic jams. This time, I was breaking a few traffic laws to get the car moving and keep the temperature under control. I was lucky to get the car over the Whitestone Bridge, where we stopped at a local fast food joint to cool off, and let the car cool off as well.
Luckily, we made it to RQS's place without incident, and I stayed there until sunset when it was "cooler" outside. I then drove home, bypassing most of the traffic jams I might have hit, and made it home without incident.
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Next weekend, it will be Marian who meets RQS at the station. Keep your fingers crossed that she reacts well to seeing me in this presentation.
