Have you ever been on the Staten Island Ferry? It's the only free way to get on to Staten Island and it's the only option you have if you're taking mass transit before 3 PM. Beyond that, actually being on the ferry is an experience and a half. Almost every time I've been on the ferry there has always been some little booger crying/screaming at the top of their lungs. If that isn't good enough for ya, you have the parent yelling at the kid even louder than the kid could ever be. What is one to do to escape the horrors of the whining toddler? Step outside onto the deck. This is a good way to get nice and sick during the colder months of the year. Furthermore, almost always is the deck crowded with tourists taking pictures of the Verrazano Bridge or the Statue of Liberty. Besides the fact that they're wielding their cameras you can tell they're tourists by their oh so fashionable tiny back packs, thus branding them as the European counterpart to the American hipster. Once in a while you are lucky enough to bare witness to the ever popular NYC crazy person. Are they talking to you? Are they yelling at YOU?! Nobody knows, not even them and are you really going to ask them for that matter? You might just strike up a conversation with them about how they can control the weather or they can pick the winning lottery numbers but they just choose not too. Before you know it, thirty minutes has passed and you have survived a free trip from Manhattan to Staten Island.
This has been another installment of Thoughts On!
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