Meet Metrocard Millie

Welcome to the 6^th floor.

Today's contributors are: Ann, Sara, Billy and Scott.

Subject: Metrocard Millie

“Ugh! Gimme a quad espresso Scott.” Sara says at the register as she enters Starbucks.

“Sure Sara. Ann and Billy are over there.” Scott gestures to the corner. “I’ll bring it over for you.”

“Hey Sara! Didn’t think you were coming. What’s up?”

“Oh, you know. The usual; the MTA sucks.”

“Except the drivers.”

“You at least..”

“Bitching about the stupid celebrity announcements again?”

“Al Roker needs to shut the hell up.”

“Nah, just annoyed that my card didn’t seem to read right this morning, and then it only had 15 cents left on it. What am I supposed to do with 15 cents?”

“Give it Millie.” Scott says, as he brings over Sara’s espresso.

“Er..who is Millie?”

“You haven’t named your nipples again have you Scott? Because I’m not sure how I’d give your nipple a metrocard.”

“No. Millie’s a homeless person that comes in here occasionally. She walks around to all the subway stations and takes the discarded Metrocards hoping to find those nickels and dimes left on them. Then she takes a big pile of ‘em somewhere and gets them converted into cash.”

“Wow, they let her do that? I’d think they laugh at her.”

“I think she must be friendly with someone somewhere, or maybe they take pity on her. I don’t know. But she usually comes in here when she has a good day and gets a hot chocolate.”

“Well good for her. Reclaiming the probably millions of dollars the MTA saves by people discarding these.” Sara says, waving her 15cent metrocard at Scott.

“I asked her what the best stations were, but she wouldn’t tell me. Trade secret I guess.”

“Probably the PATH train stations. Especially 33^rd street.”

“Yeah. PATH fare is 25cents cheaper. Anytime anyone has to hop over to Jersey once they tend to end up with an extraneous dollar on their card or something.”

“I still have an odd-dollar amount from when we went to the Devils game in Newark. I’m hoping to go to another game and even it out though.”

“Well back to work guys. We should go get a beer or something tonight. I haven’t had one all week.”

“I had one already today.”

“Billy..it’s like 10am!”

“And I had one when I got home from work last night at 1am. So there.”

Billy sticks out his tongue at Ann.

“But I could always use another!”

Ann's Movie Note

Welcome to the 6^th floor.

Today's contributors are: Ann, Sara, Frank

Subject: Ann plans for the weekend

“Hey Sara. We should go see Iron Man this tonight.”

“I saw Ann's note. I'm good with it.”

“Ann's note?”

Sara points to a piece of looseleaf under the “Eat Me” magnet on the fridge.

--Hey guys! It's Saturday morning, and no one else is around/awake. I think Billy or Scott was up earlier, and may be at work. I don't know. I'm headed out to meet an old friend for breakfast, and I'll probably get some coffee on the way back, and then I'll see if Scott is working, or just sleeping late. All of this is irrelevant to why I'm writing this note, as is the fact that I'll probably get a caramel macchiato when I go. We should all see Iron Man tonight. I know we've discussed wanting to see it, so I'm saying, we're doing it tonight. It's, predictably, playing all the time on multiple screens, so we shouldn't have too much of a problem. I'll mention this note to Scott if he's working, but if he's not, I probably won't. Mainly because he won't be there to mention it to. I'm in the mood for a big ole tub of popcorn with lots of greasy butter tonight. Who's with me? What do those things cost nowadays? They as much as the movie? I guess I'll find out tonight won't I? I bet Billy knows the answer to this though, it's rare he goes a movie without a snack. Anyway, I better get going, I'm going to be late.

P.S. My cellphones dead, so I'll be out of contact. Hmm, I hope my friend shows up on time since she can't call me. Oh..I should probably go be there on time myself then.

P.P.S. I'm going to ask you guys about May tonight..be warned.

“Oh, I guess it's decided then. That's easy enough. I want a hot dog.”