There is no better city in the world than New York, let\u2019s just get that straight.\t<\/p>\n
I could get lost there and be happy for the rest of my life. Stick this Southern boy in a hot, airless subway and I could be perfectly content. I\u2019ll pay ridiculous prices, and feel I\u2019m getting a deal. I\u2019ll get slammed hard by someone on the street, and thank them for the experience. <\/p>\n
I\u2019ve never felt a pulse like New York. It\u2019s as close as I\u2019ve ever come to getting struck by lightning \u2014 a rush of energy through my body that makes me think, \u201cI\u2019m alive! \u2026 or fried like chicken.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s New York. <\/p>\n
My wife (the pregnant one) and I went to the Big Apple for a last hurrah before the baby comes, and to celebrate her birthday (won\u2019t say how old as the Surgeon General warns against it.)<\/p>\n
The thing about life I\u2019ve learned is this: Find a partner you can travel well with and you\u2019ll never be unhappy. I\u2019m very lucky, in that respect, and it holds true even when pregnant. <\/p>\n
Although, when you need a pry-bar getting in and out of a cab, it tends to slow things down a bit. But I\u2019m proud to say she never got stuck in a revolving door or a subway turnstile, as I feared. (She\u2019s done it even when NOT pregnant.)<\/p>\n
New York is fun with woman-carrying-child because it comes with power. You\u2019re on a crowded subway, buried so deep from the doors that miners wouldn\u2019t try digging out, and all of the sudden this woman I thought knew, so quiet, dainty and unassuming, yells from the bottom of her lungs, \u201cLook out! Pregnant woman coming through!\u201d <\/p>\n
She then proceeds to bounce people out of the way as she snow plows through with her belly. I stood, just for a moment, in total amazement, then quickly came to my senses and followed her through. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m her valet,\u201d I told people as I passed. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s power. <\/p>\n
And you get to use handicap elevators. Well, I\u2019m not sure you \u201cget to,\u201d but we did one time in a subway. It was right after she used her belly as a battering ram, on a train that had creeped along so slow we decided to take our chances on the street. <\/p>\n
When confronted with stairs to the above world, Nancy eyed the elevator and said, \u201cWe\u2019re taking it!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you kidding me?\u201d I said. \u201cFresh air is like 10 steps that way. We\u2019ll be out of here before the doors even open. I want to live!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re taking it!\u201d she said again, and it was settled. <\/p>\n
So we stood and waited. Behind us, all of Manhattan, and some 200,000 tourists, had time to file by. The train we had ditched traveled back and forth between the Bronx and Brooklyn twice, with time for a servicing. Days passed and I wondered how I would deliver a baby in a subway. And we stood and waited. <\/p>\n
We stood next to a hunched over little man, who was probably 33 when he started waiting on the elevator. And eventually it arrived. We entered.<\/p>\n
And \u2026 up \u2026 we \u2026 went \u2026 <\/p>\n
The speed of honey \u2026 dripping ,,, down \u2026 the \u2026 wall.<\/p>\n
I think it all-total took us 30 minutes to reach the surface, which must have really been 9 miles up, despite the fact that it looked like sunlight was so close. <\/p>\n
But, you know, I didn\u2019t care. I was in the most incredible city in the world, with my pregnant wife and this nice old man, watching the rest of the world shoot by me at the speed of sound, I can enjoy it even from the confines of a handicap elevator, where we celebrated three more of my wife\u2019s birthdays. Even in the elevator, growing old and arthritic, it\u2019s an amazing city, and I ate it up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is no better city in the world than New York, let\u2019s just get that straight. I could get lost there and be happy for the rest of my life. Stick this Southern boy in a hot, airless subway and I could be perfectly content. I\u2019ll pay ridiculous prices, and feel I\u2019m getting a deal. I\u2019ll get slammed hard by someone on the street, and thank them for the experience. I\u2019ve never felt a pulse like New York. It\u2019s as close as I\u2019ve ever come to getting struck by lightning \u2014 a rush of energy through my body that makes me think, \u201cI\u2019m alive! \u2026 or fried like chicken.\u201d That\u2019s New York. My wife (the pregnant one) and I went to the Big Apple for a last hurrah before the baby comes, and to celebrate her birthday (won\u2019t say how old as the Surgeon General warns against it.) The thing about life I\u2019ve learned is this: Find a partner you can travel well with and you\u2019ll never be unhappy. I\u2019m very lucky, in that respect, and it holds true even when pregnant. Although, when you need a pry-bar getting in and out of a cab, it tends to slow things down a bit. But I\u2019m proud to say she never got stuck in a revolving door or a subway turnstile, as I feared. (She\u2019s done it even when NOT pregnant.) New York is fun with woman-carrying-child because it comes with power. You\u2019re on a crowded subway, buried so deep from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}