Only in dreams

[trinityvixen]

Last night's dream featured a pair of jeans with legs tangled around and around on some telephone wires in front of the house across from my parents' house upstate. feiran came into my room to bug me to lend her a specific pair of my jeans (they have ribbons down the legs) so she could chuck them at the pants and somehow dislodge them because she wanted her pants back.

Reluctantly, I loaned her the pair, threatening her mightily if she got my second favorite pair of jeans stuck up there, too. Because I'd already lost my first favorite pair to a microwaving accident. She said not to sweat it--when she got the other pair down, I'd have two pairs again.

Comments

Re: It's true...

[teneda.livejournal.com]

Am I wrong? Or are you giving me that look just because you Westchester people are on par with Long Islanders?

Re: It's true...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

We are not LI'ers. We don't have silly accents for starters. And it's not true. We're barely thirty miles away from the city and there's easily four hundred miles above the city before you run out of state. That is upstate.

Re: It's true...

[teneda.livejournal.com]

I didn't say you were LIers. Merely on par with them. LI is less than 30 miles from the city as well. They ALSO don't pay city taxes, and are not a borough of NYC. Accents or no, LIers are another set of people who WANT to call themselves NYers, but are only so as members of the STATE. NOT New York City.

And yes, I get your meaning of how "upstate" is farms and cows and such, but once you leave the confines of the Bronx, that there is upstate.

Re: It's true...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Which is why I blew a raspberry at you. It's not upstate! It's in the lower quarter of the entire state, so it's not "upstate." If you say, "it's upstate from NYC," fine, as a directional locator, but not as a general statement because "upstate" is not a descriptor of a place so far south in New York State that it's practically hugging New Jersey.