Feeling "The Rush"

New York City is always in a rush. I think there are two reasons for this. 1.) it is hard to get from point A to point B. People have to either walk or fight their way through traffic. Either way it takes a lot of time to get where you want to go. 2.) Stores have no space. This means they can only hold inventory for a couple of days at the most, so trucks have to bring inventory to every story/restaurant, every single day. This fills the streets with trucks, and a lot of time is spent loading/unloading inventory, while doing regular high volume business at the same time. People are always racing against the business-day clock. Businesses here don't make money from their prices, they make it from the sheer volume that they move every day.

Last night New York City was flooded. It turned warm and rained, and all the snow melted. We had rivers and rapids going down Park Avenue. Luckily that happened on a Sunday and not a business day. Traffic would be soggy and desperate. I didn't go out because I don't have an umbrella. But this morning everything is nice and dry, sunny and warm. It feels more like late fall than winter.