David Crawford had bought a tree for the office. Our office had no plants and he brought the first plant. It was this four foot tall corn plant tree. (I will need to investigate the real name.) David eventually left the company and left the tree for me to water. When the company moved to the Woolworth building, I took it home. It had grown just slightly, but we got some serious looks on the subway, the tree and me, yes, even New Yorkers react to others sometimes. I tried to treat the tree well and it grew quite substantially. Today was the day to pass it on. You have to read the adventures of Eric "the Redd" Feliciano, as he picked up the tree from here, which is on 95th street and Broadway, to bring it home to Brooklyn. read the story!.
Posted by Witold Riedel at May 03, 2002 11:05 PMmoving large plants in the subway is one of the great adventures for new yorkers. isn't it every new yorker's job to do something every once in a while to enterain the others? some take ithis business really serious (i.e. the usual subway freaks with their favourite line "hhgrmpf, change?"), but think about the entertainment value of some poor guy (in this case eric or me) truggling with a plant larger than themself getting it in and out the car. scores at least 1000 e-points (while the ususal freaks might get 3-8 e-points from an typical new yorker, but of course 100 from tourists/outoftowners). one day a had big plans to go for the 10000 e-points: taking a folded queen-size futon home with the subway. i got already 3000 e-points while mentioning this idea in the futon store to the sales guy. he simply couldn't believe it. but i gave up with the subway idea, and squeezed the matress in a cab (also a littlebit exciting experience).
aren't we all lucky with the NY subway rules? one can take anything with them in a car when it fits through the gate and in the car. it lieves so much room for so much more entertainment-points in the subway.