Yesterday was amazingly memorable.
Original plan:
whole day in midtown Manhattan
lunch--> movie by 3pm--> hanging out and Korean barbecue dinner
but what actually happened was a big surprise.
Yesterday my friend picked me and my another friend up to have a lovely lunch in Oms/b, a Japanese riceball cafe in midtown. The weather was perfect, and our lunch was good. However, soon enough, a car accident marked the beginning of our "bad-luck" day-out. At lunch, we were planning to see the movie Hairspray in AMC on either 42rd St, or 34st St, but we decided to have a short trip to drive pass the UN building on the 40th St on the way to the theater. When we arrived at the exit of the Manhattan/ FDR Tunnel, we needed to merge to the left side of the lanes. When we were slowly changing lanes, a taxi came in an extremely fast speed and hit the left side of our car. None of us got hurt, but the crash caused damage to the car and its front door. We slowly parked the car behind the taxi, after the taxi driver had dropped out the passengers. When we were negotiating with the driver, whom argued that WE tried to turn at the corner, and hit his car. He also criticized my friend (the driver) as someone from the West, and yelled at us. He got out, walked toward our car, and kicked at the damaged part of the car (I will not forget his car's number and his face!).
The taxi driver's friend came along and he told him the same thing. The police came and interviewed two drivers. Police Officer simply asked us, "What happened?" My friend answered and I added one or two sentences. I did not know if that was detailed enough for the interview since the taxi driver seemed to have much more to say (in order to get out of the charge!). After the police and the taxi were gone, my friend took some pictures of his car. Before my friend started the car, he needed to fix the front part of the tire because the damage had caused the steel touching the tire.
It was already 3pm, so we had an alternative plan to go to Times Squares to visit The Funny Store, which was a historical store for interesting products and would be closing in two weeks. We were looking for a parking spot, but we ended up in Hoboken, NJ.
We decided to see a movie in one of the closest theaters there, so we asked the direction at a HESS gas station. In fact, someone gave us a direction to Barnes and Nobles. Perhaps he thought we were going to buy a copy of Harry Potter.
So... we made up our mind to Queens. Unfortunately, the traffic was really bad. We finally arrived at Queens and decided to see the movie Transformer at 5:45pm. I brought three tickets with credit, but my friend did not know I got them, and brought one for himself. So... we refunded the extra ticket; and I believe it was our first time to refund a movie ticket. After that, we had a Vietnamese dinner and a drink in Sago.
It was an amazing 12-hour adventure, wasn't it?
