The Aerie

Jiggedy Jig

Well, I'm home again, home again, after my four-day excursion to New York for my friend's wedding. I had a really good time, although I had a number of minor mishaps. I locked my keys in my rental car right before the wedding started, and after the very expensive locksmith retrieved them a very helpful fellow told me a) he had AAA and could have gotten my car opened for free for me, and b) the rental agency would have sent someone out to open the car for free.

I kind of don't believe the latter -- maybe the agency would have sent someone, but I suspect that whoever they sent might not have arrived very quickly. At least this way I had my keys back in an hour. And while the obvious response to his AAA membership would have been to ask him where he was an hour before, the other notion is that AAA isn't free. I lock my keys in my car about once every five years, and I suspect that as expensive as the locksmith was, he cost less than five years of AAA membership.

So there was that little mishap, and then I left my camera behind at a friend's house, but that's not too bad. She said she'd overnight the camera to me, so I should have it tomorrow.

Those were the downsides. The upsides were plenty.

To start with I got to see my friends, the Danays, again. They're all girls so I can use their names: none of them are Danay's anymore. The Danays lived across the street from me in Queens when I was growing up, and Barbara was my best friend. Her twin sisters were younger and shyer, and there was always that which-one-am-I-talking-to awkwardness as well.