Deer, water, and the UWS
I like my neighborhood precisely because it isn’t exciting – at all.
There are cool things like the Beacon Theatre and Lincoln Center but it’s still relatively quiet around here.
Well, last week was a doozy of a week for the UWS for a number of reasons.
Me: What’s going on?
Buddy: A deer got hit by a car.
Me: No, seriously, what happened?
Him: That’s what happened!
Didn’t believe my friend I ran into around it when he told but it seems that a deer that somehow ended up in the Upper West Side and got hit by a car.
It then sought shelter in a townhouse courtyard that I regularly walk past on the way to/from my gym.
The cops shoo-ed me away when I tried to take some pics…
…but a fella I didn’t know came up to me.
Him: Hey, I got some pics if you want to see what’s going on.
Me: That’d be great, thanks!
He ended up sending them to me so I could show the Firecracker, who was definitely not gonna believe me because I could barely believe it myself.
He was definitely wounded and bleeding profusely.
They shot it with a tranq but had to put it down, I heard.
NYC’s a rough place if you’re not used it to.
Poor guy.
The other thing that’s been happening is that my tiny building is dealing with more water issues.
Couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out where it was coming in from so, I hired a pro, whom I’d worked with in the past.
Damn if he didn’t go to the other side of the guardrail – the side where you fall to your death – hold onto the potentially unstable guardrail with his left hand…
…balance on one lege, and dangle OVER the gutter and take a picture of a 25 foot long, one inch gash underneath my gutter.
Him: I think I found your problem. There’s…
Me: Come back first!
He survived and I definitely needed a drink after all that.
Like I said, I like living where I live precisely because it isn’t exciting.
Here’s hoping things go back to being boring next week.
Location: Not dangling over my roof, I can tell ya that
Mood: insanely busy
Music: standing ’round this corner, tall enough to touch the New York sky (Spotify)
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