Independence Day

If you look closely at the picture below you can just make out Laura and myself sitting on her car as we watched the fireworks at Liberty State Park.



Immediately after the fireworks the following occurred.

On the way to getting a couple of drinks before calling
it a night we got stuck in the traffic of people getting in and out of Jersey City
after the fireworks. We idled for about a half hour inching our way
through the streets during which time Laura periodically said she had to go to the
bathroom and she had in fact started saying this the minute we parked
to watch the fireworks. At one point she floors it to catch a light
and makes a left and I'm wondering, "Where the fuck is she going the
car in front of us is already halfway into the intersection so where is
she making a left?" SHE MADE A LEFT ONTO A TWO WAY STREET AND PUT HER
CAR IN PARK ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD GOT OUT OF THE CAR AND SAID
"SOMEBODY DRIVE I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM. I'LL MEET YOU AT DON
PEPE'S." I'm screaming NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU
DOING!!! WHERE'S DON PEPE'S but she's gone. Tim, got out of the back and
jumped in the drivers seat just as a cop walks over

cop: Are you alright?

Tim (nervously): Yes. I didn't put the car here. My friend had to go
to the bathroom

cop: Are you alright?

Tim (perplexed and stuttering): Yes. I didn't put the car here. My
friend had to go to the bathroom

cop: I mean are you alright in the head. You're going the wrong way

Tim (indignant): I didn't put the car here

Meanwhile, a large SUV seeing that we were in its way decided to barrel
towards us anyway flashing its lights at us and came to a stop as it
was about to kiss us fender to fender and
honnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnked indicating his displeasure but
giving us no room to maneuver out of his way. The cop then graciously
helped us get the fuck out of the way as the hecklers in the cars all
around has (having no where to go themselves, mired as they were in
deep traffic) shouted, "Give him a ticket!!" "Yeah! Give him a
ticket!!" If they had had tomatoes in their possession we would have
been gazpacho.

Other than that I spent a large part, too large a part, of the weekend feeling frustrated and bound because I had committed all of it to spending my time with one person or another. It reinforces my most recent hermitic habits. I feel no frustration when I go out into the world alone.