As promised I am trying to be better about my blog. Here is a little ditty about my trip to Fair Lawn, NJ.
So if some of you remember, Foot Locker opened its first skate concept about 6 months ago. Well they are really taking off so I took a trip to our store in NJ, to introduce the concept to another architectural firm we use. As you know I have no car up here so I rely on public transportation, so I took the train and was picked up by my boss close to the mall. Blah Blah Blah, meeting was good yada yada yada.
Well on the way back my train was delayed due to something so I was kind of stuck in Fair Lawn, NJ with 2 hours to kill. So you ask what do you do in Fair Lawn, you hit up K-Mart and get your nails did! Oh yeah classy area fo sho! And y'all would of been proud because I seriously contemplated hitting the "Wine and Spirits" shop and getting a bottle of Pino to help kill those 2 hours, but I decided I needed to be on my A game in case something went down in Fair Lawn.
So first there were the two ladies in K-Mart. Like usual, people just come up and talk to me. Its the baby face I guess. So I had a short conversation of how Easter was around the corner, how disorganized the K-Mart was and how much snow we have been getting with two lovely ladies I met in the card isle, ran into again in the Rubbermaid isle, and finally at check out. I ended our meeting with a nice southern, "Y'all have a nice day."
Next was off to get a manicure. Seriously I counted 6 nail salons within a few blocks, so hey, when in Rome! Plus I still had an hour to kill. So as I was sitting under the dryer thing, I sparked up a lovely conversation with Sue. She came there often. I explained to her my day, y'all know I talk to anybody, and she seemed really interested in my job. So after I gave her the getting laid off from Starbucks and moving up here to work for Foot Locker in Manhattan story, I felt like I had found a new friend. She is a retired school teacher and decided to treat herself to a little mani pedi combo, (she usually only gets a pedi) but today because her grand kids were spending the rest of the week with her she needed to relax now, because it sure wasn't going to happen later! Well Sue, yes that is her name, it was great chit chatting but my train would be here soon, gotta go.
Finally, there was the lady at the train station. Now Fair Lawn might seem like the place to be but there really isn't a train station per say. There is basically an electronic ticket machine and the train just happens to stop there by the street. So I go get my ticket and this lady starts talking to me. I swear I hit the jackpot! Now I have to describe her so you can get the full visual. Picture a skinny white woman, with an old leather "members only" coat on, holding a bouquet of fake green roses (I am assuming for St. Patricks Day, but didn't ask), black jeans, old white K-Swiss shoes and no teeth. Seriously I can't make this crap up! So she is freezing cold and insists on telling me how she was in Patterson, NJ (where ever the hell that is) and got pulled over by the cops. She said they accused her of buying drugs (um...lady I can kind of see why) and demanded to search her car. Well supposedly her registration was expired by 2 days (yeah right two days I'm sure) and they impounded her car. Now she was needing to catch the train to get home, even though she said her sister lived down the street, and she had been waiting for an hour for the train to come. I told her that I had called for the schedule and knew the train was coming late so I went to K-Mart and got my nails done. She said she wished she would of thought of that and the Indian lady sitting on the bench next to us laughed as she listened in on our entertaining conversation. I gave my new friend the number so she could call in the future and wouldn't be waiting out in the cold in case there was another train delay. I wrote it down because she didn't have a cell phone, not saying she traded it for crack, just saying she didn't have a cell phone. But God Bless America she had some fake green roses!!!!! Get it girl!
This concludes my 2 hour excursion in Fair Lawn, NJ. I will remember my time fondly.
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