Dave is…
On a mall tour of west New Jersey.
You know what sucks? Waking up early on a Saturday morning to go snowboarding (when you should be studying) only to have an unlikely series of events occur including some people getting lost in Jersey City and some other people (namely me) sitting on the side of the highway for an hour (a quarter mile down the road from one of those roadside memorials that suggest hanging out on the shoulder of a Jersey highway isn’t conducive to a long life) that culminated in it not being possible to get to the mountain in time to get in enough snowboarding to justify the cost of the lift ticket.
So instead, cause you are traveling in a two car caravan with three females you end up going to not one but two malls including the outlet mall at the base of the very mountain you woke up so early to ski on. So instead of enjoying the slopes and developing your basic jumping skills you are wandering around a Coach outlet looking dirty and disheveled while other people shop for purses.
That’d be bad enough cept you made the mistake at one point early in the day before this was such a danger that you needed a few more dress shirt/tie combos for your internship. So the conclusion of this long day of shopping is you and three girls fighting it out in some store named something like that vampire movie Van Helsing over what tie goes with a purple shirt.
It was not pleasant, but it did serve as a wake up call. I had been getting soft; I used to be much more cautious about venturing into the Garden State. Awful Death. Seriously on top of the NYU occupation its been a brutal week on my fragile psyche.
Update: As much as it pains me to admit any good result from such a trial. The dude making my sandwich at subway today told me I had a sweet tie on. First time I think I’ve ever received a random third party compliment on my appearance. Dammit.
Thats right all my choices look great and is better than anything else you’ve ever come up with!