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Ok so yesterday myself and Darlene decided to take ourselves off to KMart to acquire decorations for Viscaya and Sette. Well if we don't do it no one else will, and besides it was a good time for me and her to have a good old natter.
OK so firstly we popped by Bed, Bath & Beyond to see what their vases were like and decorations. They were not so good, so we decided to take a trip across town to KMart.
To be honest I always forget that KMart is there, so I'm always a little giddy as the cab pulls up. So in we go, I get a big trolley as we know we have a lot of stuff to get, so in the elevator (lift) we pop, along with a foregin lady and her little boy in a push chair, kid couldn't of been more than 3. &nbps;So we only have two flights to go up, it's not like it's the friggin Empire State Building? &nbps;All of a sudden it's make an odd cranking noise, stops, shudders a little, then completely settles. And of course the doors won't fucking open, so Darlene starts to ring the emergency bell....NOTHING. She takes off her poncho, kneels down on the floor and puts her head between her hands. This isn't good cos this kid is looking at Darlene as if to say..."are you fucking kidding me? I'm a kid and YOUR freaking out". I must admit I was a little shaky myself, but just stood there leaning against my trolley for support and trying not to panic. So Darlene continues to ring the emergency bell AND every other button that could be pressed, which one would do, I WOULD.
FINALLY after about 13 minutes or so, this voice is like..."hold on, someone's coming". &nbps;Of course Darlene wanted to call the fire department as she got a signal back on her phone, but as nice as that would of been to be rescued by the gorgeous NYFD, it didn't deem necessary at that time for some reason. Anyway all of a sudden we began to move back down at quite a frantic speed I must say which of course flipped this kid out, he starts screaming, Darlene's AND his mother try to placate him, I just stand there, gripping the life out of my trolley, pretty much shitting myself as I could imagine the cable suddenly snapping and the 4 of us plummeting to our deaths. Yeah whatever, the doors opened and as luck would have it, the girl that saved us, IS a KMart employee, but was on our way out when she heard us yelling and the bell going. Her HUSBAND is a maintenance man for KMart, so she had a spare set of those fancy keys that only maintenance people have and basically rebooted the lift/elevator and then opened the door manually with the key. We were very grateful, even though nobody else from KMart seemed to give a rats ass. I would mind but then as we came out, looking a bit shell shocked and complaining about the elevator getting stuck, a couple of fucking people were stood waiting to get on board. Myself and Darlene are like..."no please don't get in there, it's dangerous, you'll die", BUT OH NO, trying telling that to crazy ass New York Christmas shoppers.....
So there you go, that was exciting for a Monday, it pretty much went back to normal/dull/whatever from there, well except for me eating a lovely meal of sushi last night and relaxing on my chaise. Shit man tomorrow is Dec 1st, I can't believe how quick this year has gone, it sucks and I'm am so NOT READY for Christmas. In fact I think I'm going to cancel it, I'm not in the mood for it, and I don't think I have that spirit this year if you see what I mean?
I will get a couple of little teeny weeny trees to put outside my window ledges and decorate with lights I think. Well it's the least I can do. Oh god yeah also while I was in KMart I saw a fab microwave reduced from $45.99 to $34.99.....isn't that fab? I am SO going back this evening to pick it up, are you kidding me? what a bargain. Of course I can't do it this morning like I'd rather do, because I have to go to Varick Street and pick up a parcel that has been delivered, or attempted to be delivered twice, but apparently HAD to be signed by myself for a french cuff, black shirt, I mean come on. So now because I don't have a doorman anymore this is the shit that I have to deal with. Whatever, no worries, walk down there will do me good.
Later people....
