04th Jun 2003
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
A friend and I were walking along 18th St. heading east the other day when a strange thing happened: a police car pulled up, with four cops in it (always a bit odd to see cops sitting in the backseat of a cruiser), and it pulls up next to us and the cop in the passenger seat leans out the window and asks “Hey, where is Irving Place?”
As an uptown kind of guy, I was a bit hazy myself, but I told him to keep going east, as it was across 5th Avenue somewhere. Traffic was moving slow, so I saw them pull up at the next block and ask someone else.
Aren’t cops supposed to know stuff like that? I was glad to see they weren’t rushing to an apparent emergency there. Incredibly, my friend and I had just been talking about GPS technology. Shouldn’t they have something like that in their cop cars? Honestly, I don’t know how a cop could ask directions with a straight face.
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