Good Ole SI

Staten Island's on the map.

After last night's episode of the Apprentice, a whole lot more people know where Staten Island is.

The answer: far away from Manhattan.

No kidding. :)

On the Apprentice, Tana wanted to use a Bedazzler (or is it a Beadazzler?) to apply rhinestones to their commemorative T-shirts. Nowhere in Manhattan carried it and she went all the way to a Michaels on Staten Island to pick it up. Except they didn't have it either, and she bought glue-on rhinestones. Which I'm sure they must have had somewhere in Manhattan.

In the boardroom, I thought it was hilarious when they started making a big deal of how she went all the way to Staten Island to get rhinestones. Because it's true! From Midtown to SI in a cab would be at least 30-40 minutes one way. So the rhinestone-buying ordeal must have taken almost 2 hours. Not to mention the cost of the cab ride. For rhinestones! Even Trump said SI was really "far."

Now maybe people will get it when I talk about how I live in NYC, but really far from the city. Why it takes so long to get places. Why I can't just spontaneously appear to do things. Damn commute time!

The whole thing reminds me of a study that came out about a month or so ago about how in the entire United States, Staten Islanders have the highest percentage of people with really long commutes. (Or something like that.) Even further validation for my insistence that it's an ordeal to get places in a hurry. And how bad the commute is to work from SI.

So, yes, a lot more people now know where SI is and how far away it is. And that SI is the place to go if you want to buy rhinestones. :)