Only New Yorkers Here, Thank You
When we stopped on Staten Island this past June to eat lunch at Applebees before checking in to the Comfort Inn Brooklyn Cruise Terminal hotel for our last night ashore, we overheard a man at the next table say to another man, “Hey, my wife just told me that she saw an Arizona license plate in the parking lot. Can you believe it?” His table companion replied, “You’ve got to be kidding!” and started to crane his neck to see out the window on a rainy day. Arizona is the other side of the world to people from New York City. And yet we’d just driven across the country to board the ship and sail to Europe the next day. And they couldn’t believe it. Remember the New Yorker cartoon about the perspective of the world from New York City? Well this was it!!! Certainly they were right. All the other license plates said New York. But the food that they served at Applebees was the same across the country. We had steak with mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables. We wanted something warm. It was a chilly, rainy day on this side of the country even though it was June 2.
When we stopped on Staten Island this past June to eat lunch at Applebees before checking in to the Comfort Inn Brooklyn Cruise Terminal hotel for our last night ashore, we overheard a man at the next table say to another man, “Hey, my wife just told me that she saw an Arizona license plate in the parking lot. Can you believe it?” His table companion replied, “You’ve got to be kidding!” and started to crane his neck to see out the window on a rainy day. Arizona is the other side of the world to people from New York City. And yet we’d just driven across the country to board the ship and sail to Europe the next day. And they couldn’t believe it. Remember the New Yorker cartoon about the perspective of the world from New York City? Well this was it!!! Certainly they were right. All the other license plates said New York. But the food that they served at Applebees was the same across the country. We had steak with mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables. We wanted something warm. It was a chilly, rainy day on this side of the country even though it was June 2.
