Perfect NYC Day

Today is the sort of perfect day of which we have far too few this time of year in NYC. The specter of Summer heat & humidity is always close in the Spring, so new yorkers relish these few days all the more. Of course it is a perfect day, yet of course it is also a working day. And tomorrow, Saturday, is supposed to be completely crummy with rain all day long. With that in mind, I decided that since I had to run up to the New York Road Runner's Club, that a walk through the Park wasn't a bad idea. So on my lunch "hour" I took a train up the West Side and walked East through the Park. I meandered along the Reservoir Path,

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with one grimace to the woman who had a stroller parked in the middle of the path -- no strollers allowed on the path. No dogs, no bikes, no-bloody-strollers! There are plenty of wonderful footpaths through the Park, miles & miles of them, you don't need to be up there with your stroller! There is a reason for the rule (and the rule is posted EVERYWHERE), the path is very narrow and is meant mostly for runners and fitness walkers, it's not just there as a damn suggestion. Do you think just because you have a child, the rules do not apply to you??? ("but it's a baaaaay-beeeeeeee" give me a freaking break!)
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Anyway, sorry about that, where was I? Oh yes, it was a beautiful day and everywhere there were people out enjoying it. I couldn't help but be envious of the people who had had the foresight to take today off,

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or who don't work in corporate, soul-sucking jobs that require them to waste their lives cramped into a windowless, putty-colored cubicle for hoursweeksmonthsyears...
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er, anyway, it was nice.