Moments of Panic; or, Why Keisha is the Most Awesome Librarian in the WORLD
Posted by Shalar at 10:39 PMFunny story. You're gonna laugh. This is Shalar. I'm not going to post much, I expect, because Kris is obviously a much better writer than I. But I will relate some interesting tidbits from our adventure getting to Yankee Stadium on Saturday. To catch up: Friday night we stayed in Jonestown, Pennsylvania. After oversleeping the free hot breakfast we got on the road to New York just fine. Went back and forth a bit about how to best make use of the always efficient and convenient public transportation system. At first we thought in order to save some time on the late night end, we would park in Connecticut where we were staying that night, take the Metro North and connect to the subway. Eventually we decided that wouldn't want to take the time that requires (NOT because we were running late! Oh no!) and settled on parking at a PATH station in Jersey City (mostly because that's the city we were in when we made the decision).
Here comes the funny part: about 9 blocks into our ride on the D train Kris looked up at me and asked, "Um, do you have the tickets?" Now, some of our dear readers may have been with me in the past when this very situation happened so you may not be surprised. Actually, I can only think of one instance of it happening to me (Guster in Chicago). And it happened at least once to Kris as well too (Nats at Cubs a year ago). I should mention that we can place no blame for this situation on any one person, we both just remembered everything we needed for the game except for this one teentsy detail. But even if you are much more organized than we are you can imagine the panic that grabbed us both. But don't worry! Kristina's middle name is Resourceful. Our tickets were the email type so we started thinking of places where we could go access mail and reprint them - library, coffee shop, copy place possibly. At that VERY MOMENT we were approaching the Bryant Park stop. Kris said, "This is the library stop." We hopped off and walked right up the stairs to the New York Public Freaking Library.
As I am a library geek, this place is like a temple to me, but it was closing in a half-hour so we needed to scoot and find some internet. After consulting the map we figured "General Research" might be a good place to start. We went up to the information desk and asked the nice young woman with the nametag that said "K Campbell" on it. Sure that this was a sign from the Higher Power, we related our predicament. Now, normally to access the internet in the NYPFL you have to sign up for a card, sign in, and pay for print. Turns out the "K" stands for "Keisha," and Keisha calmly said, "Hang on just a sec." She typed a bit on her keyboard then turned the monitor toward us, inviting us to do whatever world wide webbing and related printing we might require.
We reprinted the tickets, took a quick photo of the famous lions guarding the library, hopped back on the train and rode with not a bit of anxiety remaining to the famous 161st Street/Yankee Stadium stop.
I must apologize because I'm struggling a bit to remember many details from the game itself. I mean, it was more than 24 hours ago and we've been to a whole other game at Fenway since then but here are some thoughts:
1) Yankee Stadium is really an amazing piece of baseball history.
2) "Why is it called the World Series when it's always played in the Bronx?"-Anonymous. Yankee fans are very proud about the 26 championships thing. You see reference to it everywhere.
3) Shout out to the kid behind us who apparently must have worked really hard to shake up his bottle of Coke before opening it so that it could impressively spray pop all over the back of my white shirt.
4) It was awesome to see A-Rod knock out a homer.
5) Games are not so interesting when the home team blows out their opponent 17-5. It makes you want to leave in the 7th to beat the traffic.
6) I would recognize Rodriguez and Derek Jeter even if they were just in silhouette by the distinctive way each of them moves. Oh, Lordy.
7) Vegetarians are allowed to eat hot dogs only when they are in a historic stadium that opened in 1923.
8) When you have EZ Pass and you want to cross the George Washington Bridge in less than an hour, take the lower deck. Don't listen to Jason. Jason doesn't know you have EZ Pass (more about Jason at a later time).
SO, Day 2 is done! (Day 2 is the new Day 1). Next up, Boston's Fenway Park.
Here comes the funny part: about 9 blocks into our ride on the D train Kris looked up at me and asked, "Um, do you have the tickets?" Now, some of our dear readers may have been with me in the past when this very situation happened so you may not be surprised. Actually, I can only think of one instance of it happening to me (Guster in Chicago). And it happened at least once to Kris as well too (Nats at Cubs a year ago). I should mention that we can place no blame for this situation on any one person, we both just remembered everything we needed for the game except for this one teentsy detail. But even if you are much more organized than we are you can imagine the panic that grabbed us both. But don't worry! Kristina's middle name is Resourceful. Our tickets were the email type so we started thinking of places where we could go access mail and reprint them - library, coffee shop, copy place possibly. At that VERY MOMENT we were approaching the Bryant Park stop. Kris said, "This is the library stop." We hopped off and walked right up the stairs to the New York Public Freaking Library.
As I am a library geek, this place is like a temple to me, but it was closing in a half-hour so we needed to scoot and find some internet. After consulting the map we figured "General Research" might be a good place to start. We went up to the information desk and asked the nice young woman with the nametag that said "K Campbell" on it. Sure that this was a sign from the Higher Power, we related our predicament. Now, normally to access the internet in the NYPFL you have to sign up for a card, sign in, and pay for print. Turns out the "K" stands for "Keisha," and Keisha calmly said, "Hang on just a sec." She typed a bit on her keyboard then turned the monitor toward us, inviting us to do whatever world wide webbing and related printing we might require.
We reprinted the tickets, took a quick photo of the famous lions guarding the library, hopped back on the train and rode with not a bit of anxiety remaining to the famous 161st Street/Yankee Stadium stop.I must apologize because I'm struggling a bit to remember many details from the game itself. I mean, it was more than 24 hours ago and we've been to a whole other game at Fenway since then but here are some thoughts:
1) Yankee Stadium is really an amazing piece of baseball history.
2) "Why is it called the World Series when it's always played in the Bronx?"-Anonymous. Yankee fans are very proud about the 26 championships thing. You see reference to it everywhere.
3) Shout out to the kid behind us who apparently must have worked really hard to shake up his bottle of Coke before opening it so that it could impressively spray pop all over the back of my white shirt.
4) It was awesome to see A-Rod knock out a homer.
5) Games are not so interesting when the home team blows out their opponent 17-5. It makes you want to leave in the 7th to beat the traffic.
6) I would recognize Rodriguez and Derek Jeter even if they were just in silhouette by the distinctive way each of them moves. Oh, Lordy.
7) Vegetarians are allowed to eat hot dogs only when they are in a historic stadium that opened in 1923.
8) When you have EZ Pass and you want to cross the George Washington Bridge in less than an hour, take the lower deck. Don't listen to Jason. Jason doesn't know you have EZ Pass (more about Jason at a later time).
SO, Day 2 is done! (Day 2 is the new Day 1). Next up, Boston's Fenway Park.
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Truly amazing and hilarious ticket/library story - a tragedy brilliantly averted. Lions rule.