Re: (rshsdepot) Borough Hall - Brooklyn Bridge

["Kenton Dickerson" <kentondickerson_@_tds.net>]

Take my advice, just say "Yes, dear." and let it go.  This should be an 
automatic answer to everything.
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From: <train1812_@_bellsouth.net>
To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 2:24 AM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Borough Hall - Brooklyn Bridge


> Alas, Michael, a male cannot argue effectively against a female's logic.
> Never mind that for years you had been trained not to go near the stairs 
> because they were not accessible. No, you forced yourself to go elsewhere 
> to get to where you needed to go.
>
> Did your friend know the stairs had been closed for, oh, so long? It 
> doesn't even matter if the station you refer to is in New York, London or 
> Timbuktu.
>
> Is your friend worth pursuing? Is she understanding? If she thinks you're 
> a dope, your cause is most likely lost anyway. On the other hand, if she's 
> reasonable and can understand why you acted the way you did, then onward, 
> I say.
>
> BUT -- on the other hand, you seem to not be sure the stairs had actually 
> been closed. If, in fact, they were not, plead stupidity.
>
> My two cents worth in your quest. :-)
>
> Albest,
>
> Leo
>
>
>
>
>>I hope that somebody on this list can help resolve a friendly dispute
>> with a favored grad student which has degenerated into "Men are not
>> capable of following simple directions, Never mind ask for them."
>>
>> We were supposed to meet at the main entrance to the 4&5 trains under the
>> Municipal Building. Having walked across that bridge probably hundreds of
>> times during my student days in Brooklyn, in my mind that main entrance
>> to 4&5 meant the plaza at the end of the bridge. To her it meant the
>> stairs that are actually under the building.
>> While I will concede that I should have heard "under the building" as the
>> operative terminology, I was under the impression that those stairs had
>> been closed off some time ago. They were open as of a week ago last
>> Thursday with quite a bit of iron fence in place.
>>
>> So my question to some of the veteran New Yorkers on this list is:  Is my
>> memory correct here or should I just plead stupidity? (I may do that
>> anyway)
>>
>> Thanks
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