Lessons of the City 2 and 3

Lesson Number Two:

When you carry an umbrella in the city, it is your responsibility to maneuver it away from others walking down the sidewalk. These maneuvering skills include rising it up, tipping it to the side, walking off of the sidewalk completely or sometimes you have to just close the umbrella all together.

It was pouring last night as I walked to the train to meet Tylan for our Wednesday SBS corn hole league. (By the way we won our first game!) Normally I would drive to the train stop when the weather is nasty so we don't come home looking and smelling like wet dogs. Due to the fact we were taking the truck home, I walked to the train stop. Knowing it was going to be pouring my nice boyfriend Tylan left out an umbrella for me to use, little did he know it was going to create a great story!

All was going well on my way to the train stop in Wakefield. There were a few mishaps when I found out I couldn't fit in between the light post and the fence. Besides that the large umbrella was very much appreciated.

When I got to the city, I did as I saw everyone else and opened my umbrella at an appropriate distance from the outside door to avoid poking anyone's eye out. Where all heck broke loose was when I enter the narrow streets. I realized I wasn't fitting very nicely on the side walk. My umbrella keep bouncing off the building.

Suddenly BANG! I nailed a man on the shoulder. Oops. I said I was sorry, but he didn't acknowledge me as he seemed in quit the rush to make his train. Woo... got away with that mistake. Following that I got trapped in between the side of a building and one of those large electric boxes. People stared, I was scared I was going to electrocute myself. I nailed two other people and was knocked off the sidewalk before I started to catch on to everyone's clever umbrella moves.

And that's where lesson two was learned. If you use an umbrella when it's raining, it doesn't mean you rule the side walk. You must move your umbrella to avoid others.

This night was a special night, because I got to indirectly learn an additional city life lesson:

Lesson 3:
When you plan on driving into the city and don't want to pay to park in an expensive parking garage..
Not only do you check if there is a hockey or basketball game, but check if there are any concerts happening.

Because if you don't you might end up driving around for a hour and a half before you have to pull some super man parallel parking maneuver and barely make it to your SBS corn-hole game!

Lessons learned about living in a city...

Lesson #1:
Only one person at a time fits into a revolving door.


I don't know why I thought other wise but I keep trying to fit two people into the little revolving sections.

A memory of my childhood often plays in my head of when I use to visit Seven Springs PA ski resort every Febuary. I'm not sure if I imagined it all, but I remember a revolving door at the entrance of the resort. For some reason, I also remember spinning through these doors with my brother at my side. Because of this... I had the idea I could still fit two people at a time through a revolving door. I forgot that I use to be a tiny munchkin.

The other night I found out I'm not such a tiny munchin any more. Two adults do'nt fit into a revolving door at the same time.

It felt as if I was in a angry crowded line where you can't help but continue to step on the shoes of the person in front of you while an angry mob continues to un-voluntarily push you forward.

Oh the joy of mia-shaped memories. To this day Tylan is careful now to follow me into a revolving door and definitely to never lead through one! I think I scared him for life trying to fit us both through at once.