2 Hello (Troublesome) NY

Author's POV

A great day, turned sour. Typical New York. ...At least from what you've seen ... thanks to Hollywood.

The apartment that you paid, in full, for a year was already taken! Luckily, you've brought the apartment's documentation as proof of contract and payment, signed and properly stamped. Other wise ... you would have been seriously screwed. It took plenty of time and hassle causing the company to triple check the documents. Eventually they caved in. They gave you a different apartment, free of charge for the one year. What you had paid for previously.

How all this worked our didn't make much sense to you. How you even got an apartment, your own apartment, when you were gonna have to share before, was a bloody mystery. After all this was one hell of a mess. Maybe, if you had more knowledge on apartment rentals you would had been able to see the oddness of it, but what the hell ... you didn't know. Who were you to dwell on the unknown.

You're just relieved you have a place to live.

With living issues out of the way, you quickly placed all of your stuff in your new home. Leaving packed boxes in the living room. You'd sort them out later, since you wanted to check on the job you had arranged prior to coming here, since ... the apartment turned out so well.

Guess what? That was shot to hell too. Brilliant.

You weren't even in their interview systems let alone an accepted employee. They were kind enough to set up an interview, but that was months away. Nice sentiment and all but nice won't pay your bills. That and with a pessimistic outlook on life, you believe that was a polite way to turn you away. You made darn sure to get a date and time with a signature conformation as a double check.

You can't help but think 'Wow, life Really sucks doesn't it?'

So, here you are living in expensive NY and no income. Great. Just great.

You know you need some money coming in so you decide it's best to get a temporary job, or two if need be. You finally settle for a coffee shop.

Why a coffee shop of all places? Simple. New York is full of coffee addicts, there's no way in hell they'd be able to live without coffee. You were aiming for a morning shift so you could relax at the end of the day. Having some experience in retail, you know how to handle some customers. Though, retail at home in a town would be completely different from chaotic New York retail customers. You wouldn't know how demanding and how much of them could, would be pricks. You wanted to be safe rather than sorry. Hoping the coffee shop would keep customer interaction down to a minimum.

After getting the temp job, you have to go unpack.... yeah loads of fun.

*sigh* "What a great way to start a new life."

- eye roll -

"Yeah. Well," - deadpan - "Welcome to New York."