Tuesday, December 6, 2005

MY "BRUSH" WITH HOTNESS....

Yesterday was an unusually L-O-N-G day for me as I found myself up at 5am for a window-painting appointment with the lovely NICKI, our custom window painter. She has been doing our windows for years and she always does good work. And she's a nice girl to talk to (and not so bad on the eyes either), so I usually don't mind getting up extra early to let her in.

After she finished her business, it was non-stop errands all morning long. At one point, I found myself downtown, by the City Hall area. One of the things I had to do was to pick up some bar supplies at STAPLES (the Office Superstore that has nothing you ever need). After picking up what I could, I stopped by J & R Music World to look at some computers. I go in to look at some computer models and I notice right away that there are tons of European tourists shopping all over the place; and there are even more cheeky salesmen swarming about asking "CAN I HELP YOU WITH ANYTHING?" every two minutes. So of course, after about ten minutes I'm fed up with this and ready to leave. I have little to no patience with shopping crowds.

In any case, I'm about to walk out the door and there's this rather tall, leggy chestnut-haired young lady right in front of me, loaded down with a freshly-purchased HP Printer and peripherals. As she goes to walk out the door, the security alarm goes off and she suddenly stops, frozen in her tracks. I of course, not paying attention, continue walking and BOOM- walk smack dab into the back of her. She looks at me and the security alarm, startled. I, in turn, find myself startled at the fact that I almost knocked this chick off of her feet. I immediately say "EXCUSE ME, I'M SORRY"...She looks flustered and then I look at her and the first thought that comes to my head was "HOLY SHIT-THIS CHICK IS H-O-T!"....Then I looked at her again and I recognized her face from earlier in the morning; she was on GOOD MORNING AMERICA or THE TODAY SHOW, being interviewed about her upcoming book. I found myself asking her, "ARE YOU WHO I THINK YOU ARE?" She gives me an awkward, sheepish grin; I then whispered "PETRA? PETRA NEMCOVA?" and she nodded quickly, smiled and continued out to the curb, where a black limo was waiting for her. I began to walk away, looking at her every couple of seconds and shaking my head. It was the supermodel who got caught in that Tsunami storm in Thailand last year (the same UBERmodel who's boyfriend was swept out to sea while she held on for dear life onto a tree for like, 8 hours or something) "DAMN...." was all I could say.

I finally finished my errands by late afternoon and back at the apartment, just in time for a long needed nap. The whole time, thinking about my brush with "hotness"..

Only in NEW YORK....

PLEASE NOTE: Because of a private function, the bar will be closed to the public from 6pm-8:30pm. DOLLAR DRAFT MADNESS will resume and the bar will be open to the public afterwards. Please plan accordingly.

If you are in need of a place to hold your holiday party, THIRD and LONG still has a few available dates left for the month of December. To inquire, call 212.447.5711 for more details!

NUFF SAID