« Prognostication | Home | It's OK if you're not… »

The welcoming committee

16 April 08 | 20:14 | Posted by:

So hey, I'm in New York City at the moment. The city greeted me with open arms, which is unfortunate because they were the arms of a cabbie with horrendous body odor. Seriously, I snapped this picture in the Midtown Tunnel. That's not motion blur, it's lens crazing from the physical potency of the stench:



I guess the rising cost of gas precludes certain luxuries for people who make their living by driving. Luxuries like deodorant. But that's OK -- my rising gorge very nearly left him with an exciting new smell to commingle with the foetor of his cab.


twelve comments:

This city definitely knows how to welcome its guests! Though I have yet to have a cab ride experience as olfactorily assaulting as yours, I have had several subway rides like that.
[Red Hedgehog] (URL) - 16 04 08 - 21:35

That picture -- with the futuristic, bright blue HUD and bright red numbers clearly being subtracted from something -- looks suspiciously like one of Square-Enix's new, cutting edge, Final Fantasy VII / XIII-derived video games. Maybe even a Kingdom Hearts spin-off.

Are you sure you're actually *in* New York, and not in the midst of some sort of terrible computer generated world, like Star Ocean 3?

Take that last sentence any which way.
DNi - 17 04 08 - 01:03

So, you're finally in MY neck of the woods instead of crazy foreign places like "California" and "Japan," eh?

And why didn't you just take the subway? I thought you were all about public transit or something... *harumph*
Keithius () (URL) - 17 04 08 - 05:32

It's kinda rough getting a subway from the airport (although I hear Jamaica is lovely this time of year).

You're witnessing a new NYC cabbie tradition. When it comes time for the NYC Comic-Con they all stop bathing in a gesture of solidarity with their deodorant-less fanboy brethren. What you are smelling is an amazing simulacrum of the nerd-stink that will soon fill the Jacob Javitz center.

FYI - there's also a Takashi Murakami exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibition..
M.Nicolai () - 17 04 08 - 06:26

Any other NYC people going to Comic Con? We should try to meet up sometime this weekend. You know, compare tans and biceps and stuff.

I started my NYCC weekend last night at the launch party for Jeff Smith's RASL comic. It's not every day that you push past someone on your way to get a beer and and that someone is Frank Miller. Freaking surreal.
jeffk () (URL) - 17 04 08 - 06:34

Yeah, for some reason I just didn't feel like taking a long subway ride at 10 p.m.

If you spot me at Comic-Con, please don't be creepy!
parish - 17 04 08 - 09:05

Yeah I'm going. I've been to mountains to anime conventions but no comic conventions. Fun I guess? It can't be any worse, right?
discoalucard () - 17 04 08 - 09:53

Have fun! Are you going to San Diego Comic Con this year? I think we're skipping it (again) this year.
Mister Raroo - 17 04 08 - 10:12

I've never been in a cab before, so I'm probably wrong, but does that meter say $45.00? As in how much you have to pay?
SRaymonds - 17 04 08 - 15:34

SRaymonds - Yes, $45 is the flat cab fare from JFK to Manhattan. That doesn't include the tip.
[Red Hedgehog] (URL) - 17 04 08 - 15:50

Or bridge tolls.
MoltenBoron () (URL) - 18 04 08 - 00:27

A buddy of mine invited me along to Comicon and I decided against it because I have no interest in comics. To think I could've met the T-Frog. :(
Marc - 18 04 08 - 11:49


Official Comment Entry Section