Manhattan Adventures

Picture it: a girl in Times Square, in the snow, with a phone out of credit and a cancelled flight. Special thanks to American Airlines for the customer care phrase 'you're on your own', and T-Mobile for not accepting foreign credit cards to top up phone accounts. With wet numb feet and blue fingers (the lost glove at Bloomingdales is a story for another day) I went to Duane Reade and bought a recharge card for my phone, which did not work. At which point I gave in and started crying. (did I mention I had been dragging a suitcase the whole time?)

Finally huddled in a Starbucks, on the fourth attempt, the recharge card on the phone worked! And I called a friend and went to stay there.