Just In Time

Here comes the heat in NYC! The city is quickly approaching its first 90° summer day, and our dear Jimbo and Lindy bought us an early wedding anniversary gift: a portable air conditioner!

Here's how it all went down . . .

Step 1. Drive your car (yes, we now have a CAR in the city!) across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Step 2. Look for parking.

Step 3. Actually get incredibly lucky on a Friday afternoon and find $2.00/hr street parking 1 block from Bed, Bath and Beyond!

Step 4. Purchase the 95-lb unit and figure out a way to hoist it into a shopping cart.

Step 5. Beg the store clerk to let you take the shopping cart out of the store and across the street.

Step 6. Try not to look homeless as you wheel your shopping cart along a crowded city block.

Step 7. Embarrass yourself as you fail to fit the 95-lb unit into the trunk on your tiny '96 Honda Civic.

Step 8. Ungracefully, but successfully, jam the damn thing into the back seat of your '96 Honda Civic (thank God for 4-doors!).

Step 9. Realize that you forgot to Google-map your way home from Tribeca, cross your fingers that the Brooklyn Bridge has traffic in both directions, and zip back home to your tiny Brooklyn abode.

Step 10. Carry/push/drag/pull the 95-lb unit up to the fifth floor.

Step 11. Install (if you're the husband), or sip iced tea while reading your magazine (if you're the wife).

Step 12. ENJOY the cool air!