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Brush With Coldness

Brush with coldness

So my daughter suggests we go on GMA, since I make her watch it every morning.

I’ve told my children that they have to watch News13 This Morning so I can keep an eye on them, since the camera allows me to see back into the living room when they are watching. I’m not sure if they buy this, but they think it’s creepy all the same.

So, we’re in NOO York CITY and dutifully trek down to the Times Square Studio with our duane reade bag of shirt boxes (they didn’t have any poster board) and Easter Color markers.

We were on such a packed (and exciting) schedule that I could not finish the sign the night before. I knew enough to know we’d be waiting plenty that morning anyway; what I didn’t realize was that we’d be waiting in such cold weather!

We were of course wearing gloves (with fingers), and the evidently knowledgeable gentleman from Boston who somwhow materialized in front of us on que mentioned 48, which I assumed meant 48 degrees.

I’m used to being cold, since we work in temperatures designed for the comfort of computers rather than mammals, so I just figured the wind was numbing the tips of my fingers and causing me to shake uncontrollably.

When I had requested tickets, I assumed that being part of the ‘studio audience’ involved sitting on a riser watching other people work in chilly conditions. I really wanted to wish Deanna ‘Happy Birthday’, though, since she had to work that day and it just happened to be the day we were up there. It also happened to be St. Patrick’s Day, so there were -surprise- Celtic dancers, and my own personal favorite, live bagpipers. Just like News13 This Morning!

Because of the crowd, we were not in the first cut of those to be included in the INDOOR studio audience; I asked if someone else could hold the birthday sign for Deanna; the producer saw me shaking violently- and said,"Just come on in!”

By that time we were sincerely willing to just head to the conveniently located Starbuck’s next door. But we went ahead inside, and met a real New Yorker, the natty security guard who actually lives in Bedford Stuy! Just like the Billy Joel song! The one I like.

Then, we met a lady from- Eglin! She too, had been brought in shaking from the street and placed on a pile of coats-scarves-mittens-and-jackets that had accumulated in the window facing Hard Rock across Broadway. Again, she too was accompanying her college age daughter and roommate on their Spring Break-from Auburn!

Had the ABC producers had any real nose for news, they would have realized they had a scoop, “Why Florida Teens Spring Break in New York City.” See if you can follow this:

On our communal way to New York, some of our party saw Joe Francis at PC International Airport as he came in for his Bay county court appearance, then snapped pics of Flo Rida (it took me seeing the poster to get that his name is a play on the name of our fair state) in the airport, and as we made our way into Times Square, what do we see but a huge MTV promo of Flo Rida in PCB!

So we traipse around the murder capital of the world- DC, I let my child go to Times Square by herself to get t-shirts for her friends- we get back to our warm cozy neighborhood, and I see the front page of the paper- Girl Raped and Thrown over Balcony !

But I did get to see Diane, Chris, and ROBIN-my heroine! in person. I’m so sorry I didn’t get to wish Deanna “Happy Birthday” on air, so here it is- HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO (DeAnn Lam bear-t) FROM ALL HER HOMIES IN NOO YARK CITY!

PS: I googled “cracker cat” ang got this: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article262948.ece

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