Philip Nobel

Remainders, Miscellany and the Occasional Rant

Red Hook is Where People Go to Get Lost

Okay. So I’m skating home this morning on Van Brunt and the first of what I imagine will be a great, roiling stream of sub-geographical morons flagged me down.

“How do I get to Ikea?” It was a fucking cabbie. In a yellow fucking cab. With a map from the store site printed out.

“Map not helping?” I asked.

“No,” fucking cabbie said. “The streets aren’t numbered.”

Time to load the blunderbuss.