# NYC Dopers - Help! I shall be stranded in NYC!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 9, 2004, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967 "2004-12-09T18:36:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/21 "2004-12-10T16:13:04Z")
In the future, [hostels.com](http://www.hostels.com) will usually get you a cheap place to stay. Even if a place says they are sold out, just give them a call, as hostellers are highly irresponsible and don’t always show up. If you are willing to put up with a gay neighborhood, you could have spent the evening in Chelsea for 15 bucks! 🙂
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### Author:  [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/22 "2004-12-10T16:16:31Z")
Well, maybe 20 bucks, but the cockroaches are still usually dead before you see them, so it’s a good deal.
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### Author:  [@Canadiangirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadiangirl)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/23 "2004-12-10T16:56:08Z")
By the way, Eats Crayons, have an absolute blast!!! Better time than if you brought HER with you!!! Then spend a day regaling her with all the activities you did and how much fun you had!
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### Author:  [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/24 "2004-12-10T18:49:16Z")
> [@Canadiangirl](#):
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> By the way, Eats Crayons, have an absolute blast!!! Better time than if you brought HER with you!!!
“Brought her…?” Oh, no, no, no, no… She _lives_ in NYC. Well, Queens actually. I have no place to stay because she’s got work to do at home and “needs solitude”…
Oh, we’ll still be the best of friends. Definitely! What, with all our mutual respect and goodwill. And we still care _so much_ for each other. But hit the bricks sweetie! Good luck! Uh-huh, buh-bye! Don’t get killed or anything! Toodle-oo.
Little me, petite female from another country, wandering the cold streets of NYC at night, alone, alone, for the holidays…
I’m actually really genuinely _appalled_.
I mean okay. There’s bad timing. But fer f–k’s sake, I’d at least have the human decency of saying “Sure you can stay under my roof at night, but make yourself scarce during the day. I’ve got work to do.” Or at least call around and see if any friends could take me in – _I_ don’t know anyone in NYC aside from Dopers I’ve never met IRL.
I should go pit that little… :mad:
> [@alterego](#):
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> If you are willing to put up with a gay neighborhood, you could have spent the evening in Chelsea for 15 bucks!
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> ```
“Put up with…”? Why as a proud, card-carrying queer, I’d be all over that! Take my sensible footwear over to the village… Get me a new girlfriend. So there! Hmph!
_I Feel pretty, oh so pretty_
_I feel pretty and witty and gaaaaaaaay!.._
(Damn, I’ve got that stuck in my head!)
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### Author:  [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/25 "2004-12-10T19:02:25Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#):
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> The Algonquin is two minutes from my office, so I’d love to join if no one minds.
Jeez, that’s right around the corner…but I’m not in the office on Monday [I’ll probably be \*stuck\* getting my arse handed to me in videogames]
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/26 "2004-12-10T19:04:28Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#):
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> Jeez, that’s right around the corner…but I’m not in the office on Monday [I’ll probably be \*stuck\* getting my arse handed to me in videogames]
OK so I think I’m establishing that we work in the same building, or very close to it.
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### Author:  [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/27 "2004-12-10T19:11:38Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#):
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> OK so I think I’m establishing that we work in the same building, or very close to it.
It’s your boss! Run away! Run away!
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/28 "2004-12-10T19:18:06Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#):
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> It’s your boss! Run away! Run away!
Nah, luckily my boss lives in another state 😉
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### Author:  [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/29 "2004-12-10T20:21:23Z")
Oh, man, I’m missing an ImpromptuDope?
I’d have been happy to offer you my futon if I weren’t hauling ass back to Buffalo on the 22nd.
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### Author:  [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/30 "2004-12-10T20:32:53Z")
> [@Ace309](#):
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> I’d have been happy to offer you my futon if I weren’t hauling ass back to Buffalo on the 22nd.
_Dabs at tear in eye_
I can’t believe how generous and gracious you New Yorkers are (well, in stark contrast to that _other_ New Yorker who got me into this mess.)! Great folks on this board. Really.
And **Ace** if you’re based in Buffalo, keep an eye out for the TorontoDopes and the occasional Niagara Dope.
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/31 "2004-12-10T20:37:03Z")
On the off chance that any of your accomodations fall through, and you’re really desperate, you’re always welcome to make the 2.5+ hour trek with me to my place in Connecticut. Unfortunately, that involves train fare (about 25 bucks round trip) but it’s there if you need it.
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### Author:  [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/32 "2004-12-10T21:07:50Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#):
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> On the off chance that any of your accomodations fall through, and you’re really desperate, you’re always welcome to make the 2.5+ hour trek with me to my place in Connecticut.
Wow, do you commute that every day?
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/33 "2004-12-10T21:09:32Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#):
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> Wow, do you commute that every day?
I wish I could say no, but yes, unless I telecommute, which lately has been about once a month.
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### Author:  [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/34 "2004-12-10T21:49:27Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#):
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> And **Ace** if you’re based in Buffalo, keep an eye out for the TorontoDopes and the occasional Niagara Dope.
Nah, I’m a lowly Buffalonian transplant to lower Manhattan for law school, but I’m headed back for Christmas and New Year’s.
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### Author:  [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/35 "2004-12-10T21:51:19Z")
Hey, would any or all of you peoples be interested in dinner and drinks get-together on the evening of the 26th?
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/36 "2004-12-10T22:10:25Z")
I’d be up for it if I could find a cheap hotel for that night because after last night’s fiasco of trying to get home after 9 at night, I’m not going to want to come into the city just to turn around and come home and then come back again.
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### Author:  [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/37 "2004-12-10T22:11:31Z")
> [@Billdo](#):
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> Hey, would any or all of you peoples be interested in dinner and drinks get-together on the evening of the 26th?
Oo! I’ll go! I’ll go! I’m sure to want to put my feet up for a bit after trudging around NY all day.
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### Author:  [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/38 "2004-12-10T22:12:28Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#):
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> OK so I think I’m establishing that we work in the same building, or very close to it.
On 5th, between the shoe store and Orvis outdoor wear? I’m on the 20th floor, but my contract ends in about a month - at which point I could end up anywhere from the flat-iron district to Milwaukee. I’m hoping for flat-iron.
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/39 "2004-12-10T22:20:09Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#):
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> On 5th, between the shoe store and Orvis outdoor wear? I’m on the 20th floor, but my contract ends in about a month - at which point I could end up anywhere from the flat-iron district to Milwaukee. I’m hoping for flat-iron.
That’d be the one… I work on 7.
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/40 "2004-12-10T22:22:08Z")
What a small world, I meant to add.
If you smoke, or walk in and out of the building during the day, you’ve probably walked past me.
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