Ode to New York in December

It snowed yesterday. I didn't believe it until I looked out the window. There was snow on the ground, white, and sticky, there it was. Oh great, I thought resigning myself to the reality that this meant that stores would be closed, the laundromat would be inaccesible and my whole day would be ruined. As I turned on the TV to hear the weather report, I had a rude awakening. Wait a minute, I'm not in Atlanta anymore, there's no SEVERE WEATHER TEAM out reporting on the fact that a mere inch on snow had fallen. This is New York city. And nobody is even slightly phased that this powdery substance has dusted the city but maybe me, and my other friends that have just migrated from down south. I laughed at myself for having to come to this realization. I'm from Chicago, so I should know better, but for that split second that I looked out the window, I thought it was over, cause it had snowed. I miss the Atlanta ice hysteria, nothing better for a laugh than Atlanta and a forecast of freezing rain.

125th
"Let's go to Blockbuster!" Sounds like a plan, and so we headed to the Blockbuster on 125th so rent a movie or two, and upon trying to open the door were stopped short. It was locked. We checked the hours posted, it said it should be open. We then noticed the presence of about 10 police officers inside, and the big boarded up window to the right of the door. OK?? What's going on here? So we stood, looking inside, didn't look like anything was going on. The manager came to the door let some of the cops out...he saw us standing there didn't say anything. The fat man standing next to us with his DVD that needed to be returned said it best, "Awww hell nah, I gotta get a new movie, I'm tired of watching this same ol video, they gonna tell me something, the window was busted yestserday, it's a brand new day B, it's a brand new day." Aight then, Blockbuster on 125, i'm out.

Next stop. Starbucks. Magic Johnson has a Starbucks on 125th.
"Can I have the Chantico?"
"No."
"Ok, how about two hot chocolates?"
"Um, excuse me where's your change?" (She asks the other Starbucks employee who is sitting at a table watching freestyle DVDs with his homies).
"You're a supervisor, go get some and put it in there, it won't hurt you" (returns to watching the DVD)
"You only got five dollars in here"
"So."
(some more discussion occurs, ok i'll sit down, it's gonna be a while)
15 minutes later, I got my hot chocolate, it was good. And though i wasn't sure weather to be annoyed by the fact that everything in Harlem weather it be Loews, Starbucks, Blockbuster, or H&M, functions entirely different from their counterparts elsewhere in the city, I was satisfied, and I had sufficiently been amused. Oh 125th what would I would do without you?