Reply To: The Random Post Thread (Game Potential)
from the sound of your post, mitch, it ain’t exactly a walk in the park on a breezy day for you, either.
Yeah, I always laugh whenever I do a “within 10 mile radius” type search, be it for a store, or restaurant, or even OKCupid, because it includes NYC and Brooklyn from where I live. But the fact is that it would take me less time to drive 40 miles West or South than it would to go 10 miles East .. because that means I’m going to the city.
Unfortunately, the train near me isn’t PATH, but NJTransit .. which means they have to either take the PATH to Hoboken and switch, or get a specific train (with a transfer here in NJ) from Penn Station. I know that it inhibits my desire to go into NYC sometimes because even though the trip itself is fairly short, timewise .. it’s aggravating. Wait for a train at Penn Station, 8 minutes trip to the hub in Secaucus, wait for a train to my town, 9 minute train takes you 3 blocks from me. Sounds easy, but not when you may have to wait 40+ min for the first train, and then stuck at the hub 40+ minutes. It isn’t always like that, but it’s hard to time it.
There is also, frankly, little reason to come to me. I have a relatively small apartment, and it’s not like we’re usually gathering for something specifically near me. So if we’re all just getting together, say, to play poker … it makes more sense to take the larger, more central choice of NYC or something.