racial slur..

Apres Knick photos, we went to Chelsea Piers for some dinner and drinks with the sunset on a barge. It is amazing to be reminded that we are living on in Island because it is so easy to forget. Anway, it was pretty uneventful and relaxing. As we are leaving, a boy offers to share his cab with us and saves us waiting on a long, long cab line. As soon as we get in the cab it becomes immediately clear that he is drunk and annoying and very very obnoxious. But we grin and bear it as we felt lucky to beat out the line and be on our way downtown (us villagers always feel a sense of relief as we return back downtown to our neighborhood). At a stop light, our obnoxious passenger starts talking about what boys you should date, what boys really want (surprise, surprise). BWL is so tolerant of everything he is saying but I am not. I could learn that from her at least.

Anyway, we were at a stoplight and this boy screams up to the cabbie 'Bin Laden, make the next right'. All the blood nearly drained from my face. I was mortified. There was no poker face here - not even on BWL (ironic, that her race paper is coming out in Science today) and I told him he was an asshole and needed to grow up as BWL and I got out of the cab and left him there looking dumbfounded. That was a close encounter with the other kind..