[?9/?19/?2016 9:44 AM] Manny Savopoulos:
ya, right? it’s nerve wracking. i ever tell you about the time during the blackout? when mari was pregnant with our first born?
[?9/?19/?2016 9:44 AM] Paul Ponzeka:
oh man, no
that must have been nuts
[?9/?19/?2016 9:45 AM] Manny Savopoulos:
so, i was working for a systems integrator, doing a job for an office on the upper east side
mari was working right across the street from where abacus is now, the chrysler bulding, credti suisse
[?9/?19/?2016 9:46 AM] Manny Savopoulos:
she’s about 4, 5months in her pegnanacy
if you remember the entire eastern seaboard went down
so we had talked about this, since 9/11, antyhingn nuts, get out of the city. just head home
[?9/?19/?2016 9:47 AM] Manny Savopoulos:
so that’s what i do. i walk down 79th to the 59th and across. find a payphone, call the wife
“where you at babe?” still at the chrysler building. “What???”
[?9/?19/?2016 9:49 AM] Manny Savopoulos:
so i start haeading back, sun is setting, every one’s looking at me like i’m an idiot, heading in the wrong direction. by the time i get to the crysler building it’s getting dark and people are whopping and hollering
[?9/?19/?2016 9:49 AM] Paul Ponzeka:
oh god
[?9/?19/?2016 9:50 AM] Manny Savopoulos:
mari’s gone the reception tells me. i try to find a phone, after a dozen calls i get a hold of her: she’s a penn station. where there’s no power. with her coworker who was going to wait it out.
so i head over cross town. by the time i get there there are people literally pissing out in the open. hot, angry and increasingly frustrated
[?9/?19/?2016 9:51 AM] Manny Savopoulos:
so i turn to her and say, we need to bounce, like now. her firend frank says, we should wait it out. i tell him let’s go, stop fucking around
so we haed for the 59th (again) and it’s getting you can see the stars but not 10 feet in front of oyu
and peeps have been drinking and going “boo” for the lulz
[?9/?19/?2016 9:52 AM] Paul Ponzeka:
i can see the rage building
[?9/?19/?2016 9:53 AM] Manny Savopoulos:
o yeah, but keep in mind, i got a preggers wife, so that’s minus modifier, that makes us very vulnerable
so i hail a cab, tell the guy, $200 bucks, long island.
frank says, “wait what?”
i tell him shut up and get in
[?9/?19/?2016 9:54 AM] Manny Savopoulos:
it was crazy. i couldnt believe how she broke the plan. she wouldnt again, i’m sure of it, but that was one sketchy night
[?9/?19/?2016 9:55 AM] Paul Ponzeka:
oh man
i would have lost my mind
[?9/?19/?2016 9:56 AM] Manny Savopoulos:
nah, u wouldnt. u’d lose it the next day when they’re safe
[?9/?19/?2016 9:58 AM] Manny Savopoulos:
i hated that guy frank afterwards. i thought what a pussy. wtf is wrong with you?