I try not to be a complete staring yokel, try to let my down home small town roots show too often - mostly I get by ok; by now I’ve spent time in most of the major ‘lets go party in…’ cities but last Thursday night (a school night mind you) in a bar on 23rd & 3rd my cousin had brought me to - with the line ‘we’re going to go meet some of my most good looking girlfriends’ - I was watching the door, waiting for the statistically required *not* beautiful girl to walk in.

And she never did, though dozens more guys and girls came and went.

I got a taster of the high octane party life while I was there, piggy-backing on my cousins usual weekend fun. Bars in the city full of guys and girls who are friendly and easy on the eye and weekends were spent in the house down by the beach on the New Jersey coast. I doubt I could hack the pace over any sort of medium to long-term but it was great to dip in. Everyone was just so *friendly*.

And fit, thats another thing I really don’t think I could hack in the long run - work serious hours, then some how cram in a fair-to-scary fitness regime to stay in party-going shape… and then go party, sleep, wake, do it all again? Yikes.

But lots of fun, really, really nice people - and topped by one of cousins coworkers saying in the bar “wait, so [cousin] is really Irish? I thought he was making that up.” when he found out who I was.

Seriously, I thought New Yorkers were supposed to be a prickly, irascible lot? Even in the 100 Farenheit metro stations people were laid back. Compared to this, Paddington Underground is an am-dram remake of ‘Thunderdome’.

Good times, and cheap too.

(34 Days to Nigeria.)

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