# NYC Dopers - Help! I shall be stranded in NYC! **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/61 "2004-12-13T20:52:50Z")
BTW, **Crazy** , do you have some kind of membership with guest passes or do I have to pretend I’m under the age of 12 again…? ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/62 "2004-12-13T20:56:22Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > BTW, **Crazy** , do you have some kind of membership with guest passes or do I have to pretend I’m under the age of 12 again…? Well making you pretend to be 12 could be entertaining, but it’s a corporate discount - me and four guests for free. But really, feel free to break out the Strawberry Shortcake purse and plastic headbands 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/63 "2004-12-13T20:57:24Z")
Oh and my office is just a few blocks from there so we could probably stash your bag there. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/64 "2004-12-13T21:51:27Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > Oh and my office is just a few blocks from there so we could probably stash your bag there. Oh, excellent. Twelve-year-olds don’t normally carry luggage, it would make my disguise that much more difficult. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/65 "2004-12-14T03:32:43Z")
Well, boys, girls and writing impements, I’ve posted a new [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=291707) about the dopedinner on the 26th. We’ll be going to the Chelsea Grill. Please post in that thread if you’re coming. ( **TellMe** , if you need a place to stay, I can probably put you up that night.) ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/66 "2004-12-15T15:10:37Z")
So are we doing the museum thing on Sunday? Some other day? Like I said, I can get 4 people in for free besides myself (and if we can convince \*\*Eats \*\* to do the plastic headbands thing, that would make a group of 6 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/67 "2004-12-15T16:12:14Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > So are we doing the museum thing on Sunday? Some other day? I’ll definitely go to the MoMA on Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/68 "2004-12-15T16:15:57Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > I’ll definitely go to the MoMA on Sunday. Excellent, so we’ll do MOMA in the afternoon, the Doper dinner in the evening, and then the next day we have the DoperLunch. It’ll be like a Doper Junket! ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/69 "2004-12-15T16:19:36Z")
If I have to come in on Monday (crossing fingers, toes and anything else I have more than two of that I don’t), I’d like in on the Doper lunch. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/70 "2004-12-15T16:21:51Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > If I have to come in on Monday (crossing fingers, toes and anything else I have more than two of that I don’t), I’d like in on the Doper lunch. Hmmm, wonder what strings I could pull to make sure you have to work. (If I have to, why shouldn’t eeeeeveryone? 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/71 "2004-12-15T17:36:16Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > Hmmm, wonder what strings I could pull to make sure you have to work. (If I have to, why shouldn’t eeeeeveryone? 😉 ) Well, you could have your legal team and the vendor’s legal team come to agreement on the 23rd, leaving me 5 working days (and skeleton staffs in the respective offices) to get my product off the floor and out the door. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/72 "2004-12-15T17:52:48Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Well, you could have your legal team and the vendor’s legal team come to agreement on the 23rd, leaving me 5 working days (and skeleton staffs in the respective offices) to get my product off the floor and out the door. Bwahahahaha I said “What strings can I pull,” not “What miracles can I bring about”! ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/73 "2004-12-15T21:54:54Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > Bwahahahaha I said “What strings can I pull,” not “What miracles can I bring about”! And here I was, ready to ask for a few more miracles! ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/74 "2004-12-15T22:02:47Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > And here I was, ready to ask for a few more miracles! Well, some miracles I can accomplish - properly supplied with coffee. Damn coffee on 2 is closed :mad: ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/75 "2004-12-15T22:17:42Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > Well, some miracles I can accomplish - properly supplied with coffee. > > Damn coffee on 2 is closed :mad: 4:00pm. The resulting caffeine crash an hour later is like the whistle that tells factory workers to go home. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/76 "2004-12-15T22:31:25Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > 4:00pm. The resulting caffeine crash an hour later is like the whistle that tells factory workers to go home. Ahhh, is that what it is? Makes perfect sense. Except I’m not leaving for 10 more minutes, so I guessed the whistle by about 45 minutes 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/77 "2004-12-16T03:42:02Z")
I’m in ! Can’t wait to do MOMA and DoperDinner. Not to mention The Algonquin. —pitter patter— 🙂 Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/78 "2004-12-16T03:50:00Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > I’m in ! Can’t wait to do MOMA and DoperDinner. > > Not to mention The Algonquin. —pitter patter— > > 🙂 > > Cartooniverse Coolness! Zebra, are you still up for MOMA on Sunday? If so, that still leaves us one free guest… any takers? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/79 "2004-12-16T14:17:50Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > Ahhh, is that what it is? Makes perfect sense. Except I’m not leaving for 10 more minutes, so I guessed the whistle by about 45 minutes 😉 That’s overtime then, you can bill it at time and a half. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/80 "2004-12-16T15:05:54Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > That’s overtime then, you can bill it at time and a half. Would you believe that I can’t? A cautionary tale, kiddies: when reading your contract, make sure it doesn’t specifically exclude your being paid time and a half for overtime. It completely slipped my radar - I get paid straight time for overtime. Which really, really pisses me off. Doesn’t stop me from working it, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967.md?page=5)