# 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:** 5
**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, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/81 "2004-12-16T15:21:00Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > 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. Eh, I’m a consultant on a daily rate; minimum 8 hours per day. The partner-in-charge advised me, if at all possible, don’t work more than 9 hours a day, as neither of us are getting paid/credit for it. Much better than the 12+ hour days (chargable hourly) at my previous client. Whether I work 9 hours or 12, I get paid the same. The only advantage is that the lord-high partner, who doesn’t have any idea who I am, sees only total hours at the end of the period, and to him, the higher the better _(cha-ching)_. Makes it easier for him to sign off on my raise/bonus when I’m nearer the top. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/82 "2004-12-16T18:04:31Z")
I’m up for MoMA on Sunday. I’m just wonder if Eats\_Crayons is staying with me or Bildo that night. ---
**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 16, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/83 "2004-12-16T19:37:43Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > I’m just wonder if Eats\_Crayons is staying with me or Bildo that night. I’m still working on that. I may have a place to stay due to the gracious assistance of Cerowyn. I expect I’ll know anytime now. If it doesn’t work out, rest assured I will come a-grovelling in thorough and unbridled desperation. Buy the way, who’s better looking, you or Bildo?.. 😉 …Strange I felt the shiver up my spine… kinda like that “Angry Spouses Eye of Death” shiver. _sigh_ That’s what I get for being smarmy. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/84 "2004-12-16T19:58:27Z")
Bildo and I are both guys so I’m geussing that our looks are not too important. I have a very very cute kitty cat though. ---
**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 16, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/85 "2004-12-16T20:26:16Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Bildo and I are both guys so I’m geussing that our looks are not too important. Psst. I DO date guys. _wink, wink_ Ow! There goes the Evil Eye of Doom again! Damn, my smarminess! > [@Zebra](#): > > I have a very very cute kitty cat though. Aw, kittykittykittykitty! I’ll love him and squeeze him and call him “George”. ---
**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 16, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/86 "2004-12-16T21:53:15Z")
Well, **Zebra** , if **Eats\_Crayons** choses neither of us for that night, we can fight over **TellMeI’mNotCrazy**. I am kittyless, however. ---
**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, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/87 "2004-12-16T23:53:33Z")
I have 4 cats, and two cat-carriers. Who’s yer Daddy? 😛 ---
**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 17, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/88 "2004-12-17T00:06:59Z")
> [@Billdo](#): > > Well, **Zebra** , if **Eats\_Crayons** choses neither of us for that night, we can fight over **TellMeI’mNotCrazy**. I am kittyless, however. For this, will I need to flutter a handkerchief and put my hand dramatically to my forehead? ::runs off and practices how to say “Boys! Boys!” with just the right mix of woe and delight. ---
**Author:** ![ridealong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@ridealong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ridealong)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/89 "2004-12-17T00:27:03Z")
Some Manhattan YMCAs offer hotel rooms, and they are among the listings in the above-noted hostel site. Private rooms (bath down the hall) start at $35 a night. Certainly not ideal, but no worse than a college dorm, and the ones on the East Side (at 47th St.) and West Side (at 63rd) are in pretty good locations for a tourist. ---
**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 18, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/90 "2004-12-18T23:13:41Z")
I’ve sent of an email to those who say they want to do the MoMa thing. I have one more pass open, so if there are any late takers, please let me know. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/91 "2004-12-19T00:14:50Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > Psst. I DO date guys. _wink, wink_ Ow! There goes the Evil Eye of Doom again! Damn, my smarminess! > > Aw, kittykittykittykitty! I’ll love him and squeeze him and call him “George”. Well then I should point out that **Bildo** is taken but I am single. ---
**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 19, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/92 "2004-12-19T01:20:31Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Well then I should point out that **Bildo** is taken but I am single. There’s a Mrs. Billdo? Yay, more Dopers! I haven’t heard back about my possible Dec. 26 place-to-crash. For whom would I be less of a burden if it doesn’t go through? **Zebra** or the **Two Billdos**? ---
**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 25, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/93 "2004-12-25T00:32:02Z")
By the way, what _time_ is lunch at Algonquin, anyway? ---
**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 25, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/94 "2004-12-25T00:33:55Z")
Never mind… The word “one-ish” finally decided to uncloak itself from **Eve’s** post. I swear, I looked several times, and didn’t see it. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/95 "2004-12-25T00:51:06Z")
How many of us are going to be there, anyway? We might have to pull a few tables together. ---
**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 25, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/96 "2004-12-25T00:57:05Z")
Well, I’m packed and ready to go! Oh, and my accommodations for the evening of the 26th look good! I’ve printed out my little subway maps, and should be good for public transportation. Start spreadin’ the news… I’m leavin’ Sundaaaay… ---
**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 25, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/97 "2004-12-25T01:11:39Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > How many of us are going to be there, anyway? We might have to pull a few tables together. My estimates say 5ish… But I could be wrong on that. **Billdo, Eve, Eats\_Crayons, Cartooniverse, Me** … Not sure of any others. ---
**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 25, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/98 "2004-12-25T01:12:47Z")
Oh, and **Zebra** so that’s 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 25, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/99 "2004-12-25T01:35:22Z")
Hey, so anyone wanna go to my ex-girlfriend-who-left-me-stranded’s music gig to heckle?.. _crickets_ No?.. Fine. OF COURSE, I’m just joking. I wouldn’t do something like that. Oh, I’d fantasize about it plenty, but no, I wouldn’t actually be a putz. I’m a grown-up now! 😛 I’ll have to find some fine vintage for my host who is putting me up for the nights of the 27th and 28th. Where are the good wine shops? When I was visiting my ex in Queens, the local shops didn’t have anything I thought would be suitable for a gift. ---
**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 25, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967/100 "2004-12-25T01:44:52Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > I’ll have to find some fine vintage for my host who is putting me up for the nights of the 27th and 28th. Where are the good wine shops? When I was visiting my ex in Queens, the local shops didn’t have anything I thought would be suitable for a gift. Grand Central Terminal has a wine shop (as well as a really nice marketplace). I haven’t bought any wine from there myself, but I’ve been told it has a very nice selection. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-dopers-help-i-shall-be-stranded-in-nyc/278967.md?page=6)