{"id":34800,"date":"2023-11-13T08:26:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T13:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2023\/11\/13\/27252-steps-is-that-even-possible.html"},"modified":"2023-11-13T08:26:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T13:26:47","slug":"27252-steps-is-that-even-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2023\/11\/13\/27252-steps-is-that-even-possible.html","title":{"rendered":"27,252 steps? Is that even possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday I walked, but I don&#8217;t see how 27k+ steps is even possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More importantly, I nearly choked yesterday on a sandwich. It was at the Myrtle\/Willoughby G train station in Brooklyn. Nobody around, really, and I had no liquid in my bag, for some reason. I always have some kind of liquid for just such an occasion as this, but this time, I forgot to pack it. I hocked up enough of whatever I was choking on into a garbage can and spent the balance of the day feeling like I had a bowling ball in my gut. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wandered around that area around Myrtle\/Willoughby, where I exited the subway for no reason other than the street names sounded friendly to me. Myrtle sounds like a name for an eccentric, loving aunt or grandmother. Willoughby evokes memories of the old camera and electronics store by that name, which is not a friendly or positive memory. Price gouging and lying sales reps made my last visit emphatically my last.\u00a0Are they even still in business?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t have much time to write today. Yesterday was strange. I ate very little and feel light headed. I am going to ask for a few days off next week. I&#8217;ve taken time off from this job, but it never quite feels like I got time off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for the Myrtle\/Willoughby area I did discover the Kosciuszko Pool, which I had never seen before. It is closed for the season. Earlier I had entered Mug&#8217;s Saloon on Bedford to check on a reported working payphone at that bar. There was a payphone device but it is wired not to require coins for local calls. Thus it is not a payphone in the way most people define it. All phones are payphones, of course. But the coin- or card-fed device has a particularly inalienable  association with the term. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t think the bartender liked me. I wanted a salad but it was 11:0am and the kitchen did not open until noon. Information online about the bar&#8217;s hours was inaccurate. I had a seltzer and lime. She charegd $3. That&#8217;s how you know a bartender doesn&#8217;t like you. When they charge you anything for a seltzer and lime. She also seemed to think I was annoying for asking questions about the payphone. I tipped $2 on the $3 seltzer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YESTERDAY WAS WEIRD AND TODAY WILL BE, AS WELL, i THINK. BAH, DON&#8217;T KNOW HOW THIS GOT INTO ALL CAPS BUT I COULD USE AN EPISODE OF SCREAMING WHEN I HAD NO INTENTION OF SCREAMING OR HAVING ANYTHING WORTH SCREAMING.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I walked, but I don&#8217;t see how 27k+ steps is even possible. More importantly, I nearly choked yesterday on a sandwich. It was at the Myrtle\/Willoughby G train station in Brooklyn. Nobody around, really, and I had no liquid in my bag, for some reason. 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