New York Day 43-45 (Oct 2-4) "Money....It's A Gas"

The highlight of the past three days has been not having a penny to my name because western union has a bitch without a brain working for them. I went to Western Union to cash my check from the Nightmare House.

She was understandably nervous to cash it because I had an out of state ID. She called Art Meets Commerce (AMC the company that prints our checks) and she got a voicemail and decided not to cash it. She had a valid ID out of state or not, she had my social security number and my phone number, she had the number to a legitimate company and she had a legit check which she could have scanned to find out for sure....even if you she couldn't validate the check by getting ahold of someone at AMC she still had my ass with all that information if the check bounced. I didn't understand.

I also didn't want to deposit it because I needed the cash quickly. I still couldn't cash it on friday so I spent the entire weekend not being able to do with this piece of paper that said I had money all weekend. I bummed smokes, I bummed food, I felt like an ass.

Finally on monday I went to Western Union again because at this point I had one ride left on my metro card so I had no choice. The guy behind the counter took all the same information the first girl took, he called the same company got the same vm and still cashed it no problem...wtf...

All of that aside my days have been fairly uneventful. I had a long relaxing peaceful day yesterday and intend on having a similar one today. All this real life, blase boring everyday stuff, like not being able to cash a check is really making me finally get into "hey I live in NY mode" which has been interesting. The city is taking on a new kind of romance separate from the wide eyed fresh idealism kind of romance I came here with. I can't exactly explain it at the moment I just know I really like it.

I love you all

KH-

PS. I forgot to link you to the Raymond Did It Trailer in the last post so here that is now...(there travis stop giving me shit lol)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rugfGyRaOh8