Jon's Knit Blog

No Knit Day

Not a stitch! I spent a large portion of the day vegging at the computer. Then I had one of the more annoying taxi-drivers ever (I got out after about 4 blocks without paying. It's the second or third time I've just left a taxi.) He was incompetent. I told him where I wanted to go, and which way. He didn't reply, didn't acknowledge, then he made a turn totally unrelated to the way I wanted to go (and he turned left from the rightmost lane, which really pissed me off). Then he asked me something totally stupid, and I reminded him of the way I had told him to go, and he didn't say anything, and all I could think to say was, "Do you even speak English?"

He was all indignant about that, let me tell you. He started in on how he'd been driving a cab in the City for 16 years, and of course he spoke English. And Hebrew. And so forth. And I simply suggested that it would be better if he spoke it to a different person. And I got out of his cab.

Then I found another cabbie (from Africa, no less) who was cordial and who drove safely, even though he was talking on his (headset) phone the whole ride. But it was fine.

Then I had a yummy dinner (monkfish with shrimps in a creamy tomato sauce and torta di ricotta at La Masseria on West 48th Street) followed by the great treat of getting to watch Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin fight tooth and nail in the amazing revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" at the Longacre Theatre. See it if you love good drama and, of course, if you can.

So that was my day. Complete with a total lack of anything involving my hands and fiber. But otherwise, it wasn't so bad!