some_stars | (no subject)

So I was walking to this restaurant near Washington Square Park, which neighborhood I'm not that acquainted with, and on the way I passed a 24-hour chess store/center, selling millions of chess sets and books, covered in flyers and signs for various chess classes and teams, with several boards set up inside and on the sidewalk with signs offering free beverages to anyone playing. And I thought, "oh, how cool, a chess store. And open 24 hours! New York is great."

And then I went and ate my veggie burger and tofu pie and gave it no further thought, until I was finished and I stepped outside the restaurant and took a second to get my bearings, because I have absolutely no natural sense of direction. My first instinct was to go to the right, but I glanced back and saw the chess store and remembered, oh right, I need to go back the way I came. So I turned around and went about twenty feet...and realized it was a different chess store. Two separate storefronts devoted to chess and nothing but chess, one or possibly both of them open 24 hours a day, across the street from each other. New York, some days I don't even know what to do with you. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥