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Tayari's Blog: Take The Champagne and Run!

Posted by TayariJones on January 1, 2009 01:54 PM
Filed under Current Events

For New Year's Eve I hung out with Jarita Davis who swooped through NYC on her way to Lisbon. (Is she fabulous? Indeed.) We were sure we could find some NYE's mischeif in New York. After all, it is New York and between we think we know everybody. Well, after receiving about a dozen text messages from folks indicating that we were welcome to join them in a marathon viewing of Heros, Season Six, we decided to head out on our own in search of an appropriate way to ring in the New Year.

Here's where it starts feeling like a metaphor: We went to LITM, my favorite Jersey City bar. There was a prix fixe menue-- $89-- but we figured begggars couldn't be choosers. But, actually, we could be choosers. Jarita asked if we could order off the regular menu. "Sure," said the waitress. So we did, cutting our bill by more than half-- and allowing us to eat what we really wanted. Namely the grilled duck and Jamaican bread budding. When it came time for the ball drop, we put on our 2009 silver sparkle spectacles and ordered champagne. We toasted, he hugged each other and a couple strangers. at 12:02, the waitress dropped by the table two more splits of bubbly. We didn't order it. We didn't pay for it. But we put it in our pocketbooks and headed for the door.

This is the way to start the new year. Ask for what you want and be open and free champagne will fall into your lap. You just have to have sense enough to take it and run.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY! 2009 IS GOING TO BE OUR YEAR!

January 2, 2009 10:14 AM