Craigslist: Rideshare DC vs. Rideshare NYC - Transit Strike Edition
Craigslist has this little section where you can post a “rideshare” — “I need a ride to (local college)! Will pay for gas and provide witty banter!”, or “I need a ride to (neighborhood) on Saturday” are just samples of what some ads can be — yesterday, for example there were 22 listings or ‘requests’ for a rideshare on craigslists in DC — an average that’s similar for most cities on a typical day — except NYC — on a transit strike — there were 13 pages of listings totaling around 1300 requests for rides — just a few samples:
Bed-Stuy to Chinatown 10 bucks (nyc)
Help need ride from harlem 140th st area (manhattan)
FDNY GUYS NEED A VAN FOR X-MAS TOY DRIVE THIS FRIDAY
Ride from Astoria to Bensonhurst (or as close to as possible) (Astoria)
I NEED A RIDE FROM UNIVERSITY AVE. 175TH ST TO MIDTOWN MANHATTAN (BRONX)
Ride to Ikea Needed.
Need ride from midtown east to downtown - TODAY (midtown)
(check out many more here, if you care)
Last night was a mini-JMU reunion at Rhodeside in Arlington, VA — now just a 12-15 minute walk from my apartment — you’re jealous, I know. Hoo Hoo. Roh-bin. Hoo Hoo. Props to Dave C. for pointing out other satellite radio alternatives and for sharing in my pain for a mutually unjoyful reunion experience courtesy of the horrible and the never-should-be-hired “Great Reunions” — bah , what a racket that is.
Also in the house Jen Nappi, Leigh, Chris Scordo Danielle, Geoff Wickersham, Pat, Steve S. Margaret J., Gordo and apologies for not remembering additional names as Sam Adams tends to add some kind of “forgetfulness syrum” into their alcoholic beverages.
PS - I hate “Deal or No Deal” but I CAN’T STOP WATCHING IT! Damn you, Mandel. Damn you.
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Linda Cerniglia, student at the University of Maryland has been working for a master’s degree in exercise physiology. In school, she designed an experiment, analyzed CT scans, ran statistics, studied research and — slowly — began to write her thesis.
She kept this thesis with her at all times in her purse on a little USB flash drive — one day in September she went for a jog and locked her purse in her minivan — she returned awhile later to find her purse stolen — her thesis with it. Someone had pushed down her window and got the purse. Why she didn’t actually keep another copy boggles my mind BUT she traced some credit card purchases to a local Target store and for some reason or another decided to look in a dumpster near it — dove
in and found the thing. One in a million.
2 Responses to “Craigslist: Rideshare DC vs. Rideshare NYC - Transit Strike Edition”
hoo hoo, i invented getting drunk with old friends from college on a weeknight and being hungover at work the next day.
seriously great reunions was a rip off. we need to spread the word to the younger kids so that they don’t make the same mistake we did.
That lady is seriously retarded. If I work on a document for a half-hour I’ve probably reached the paranoia level needed to force me to back it up. Man, that gives me the heebie jeebies.