Nobody Told Us There'll Be Days Like These!

Can anyone tell us what amazing adventures befell outstanding alfie and ginnie gumption this fine fall day of near freezing temperatures from the above montage? Apart from the fact that they forgot to bring out their camera and had to download very small files from the internet? Anyone?

1) On the way to the bank at Union Square, we sat just a couple of seats on the R train from Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. He can make his guitar sound like wind-chimes or a car-crash, or wind-chimes in a car-crash, or a car crashing into wind-chimes, but today he was reading to himself and wore a black Volcom jacket.

2) After the bank, which closes at 3 on Saturdays, and lunch at Taco Bell on Union Square, where we had six barbeque wings, 3 tacos and a Mountain Dew, we walked to 23rd Street to buy some Krispy Kreme and found that the store had CLOSED DOWN!!!!!! We almost collapsed but decided against it as the floor was yucky from the previous day's snow. We were dreaming double chocolate frosted and could not understand why life was so unfair.

3) Disheartened we walked back in the direction of Union Square to stock up on apple cider to drown our sorrows. On 23rd Street between 5th and 6th Ave, large chunks of snow that had built up overnight on the roof, 5 floors up, of the Home Depot suddenly came crashing to the ground!! Right in front of us!! The bunch of people caught in the barrage of ice and snow, including a hapless kid in a pram, escaped unscathed luckily. Though badly shaken by the scene of fractured icicles and people gesticulating vehemently at the sky and the obligatory bemused black bystander, we soldiered on.

4) 50 metres later, while waiting for the lights at the junction of 23rd, 5th Ave and Broadway, at the foot of the Flatiron Building, a man across the road collapses between 2 parked cars. Heart attack? We can't tell.. but it was quite easy to get an ECG chart off Wikipedia for the montage. Anyway, New York is full of good samaritans if anything and many cell-phones were dialled, many attempts were made to move the guy off the road, many diagnoses were offered, till finally a fire truck and 2 ambulances, sirens blaring, ruckus attending, arrived on the scene. The guy had wild salt and pepper hair and a bewildered pink face.

5) The day was turning out to be pretty strange and by this time we were shaken and we were shack. We decided to go to Shake Shack at Madison Square Park for a burger. It'll be closed from the 13th of this month till Spring. We'll miss it very much. We ate in a parkful of ice and dogs in knitted sweaters. The burger was steaming, the fingers were numb, the trip home was uneventful and the story is over.