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Emily's avatar

Haven't even read the issue yet but my stressful Monday morning was made when this came through :) Cafe Anne has truly become a weekly ritual.

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“Along similar lines, I got an email from reader Aaron in Bed-Stuy who suggested that folks who operate without a smartphone, “outsource to everyone around them, which I think is a power move.” *

*You know there is a lot to that! Back when I didn’t have a cellphone and whenever I had car trouble, or ran out of gas (which I did regularly, since I always temped fate when the low-gas light came on), people WITH cell phones always appeared within minutes to save the day! I wonder if they felt superior because they had phones and I didn’t??

*A story, as usual: one evening I was meeting my wife and sons for dinner at an Outback Steakhouse, near where we lived. I was coming home from work and it was just easier to meet (meat?) instead of me drive home first. So, I just about made it with the gas-light pounding me over the head to GET GAS DUMMY!!” when I ran out on the exit ramp, about 1/4 mile from Outback. Nearly made it! Naturally, a guy stopped and asked if I wanted to use his cellphone to call for help, but I said I’d take a very short ride to Outback, instead. So me and this guy pull into Outback, at the entrance and I get out…at the very same moment my wife and kids pull up behind us, to see me exit from this guy’s car and they are “WTF?!!” (well the kids were too young to say that, then). I told my wife I ran out of gas on the exit ramp and I left the truck there; and we can go home and get the gas can after we eat and go get the truck from the ramp! I was in business then and the logo/phone number/address was on the side of the truck…it was a busy exit ramp, so I got a lot of free advertising!! My wife threatened to divorce me and GIVE ME custody of our sons, if I ever ran out of gas again…that woke me up!

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