Category: Crazy

I’m a fan of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee series. If you aren’t familiar with it, the premise is simple.

Jerry (a big car guy) gets some amazing car, picks up a comedian friend of his, they drive and chat, stop somewhere and get coffee and chat, and walk around and chat. Pretty simple. It being Jerry and another comedian, it’s often very funny. The Chris Rock episode is a favorite of mine.

One of his newer episodes has Trevor Noah (and a nice Ferrari) and they head to Dumbo and walk around my office neighborhood. So I enjoyed this one a little extra.

They walk along the water in Brooklyn Bridge Park (next to Jane’s Carousel) and admire the view. That is literally my “going for a walk to think” walk.

And yes, it’s a great view…

Yesterday my wife’s brother Victor came over with baby Journee. We hadn’t seen her in a while (she’s 16 months now) and she’s developing quite a personality.

Vic still smokes, so at one point he ducked out. When he comes back in he tells us he locked his keys in his car (getting something out of the car, put the keys on the seat, slam, oops, you know).

So Vic asks for a screwdriver and a coat hanger to try to break in. I go out with him. He’s getting pretty close but it’s a cheap coat hanger that isn’t strong, so I go back inside to get a different one while he keeps trying.

I come back out and there’s some random Middle Eastern guy next to Vic. We have a large Middle Eastern community so this isn’t alarming or anything. A bit odd perhaps, he seems to be offering moral support.

So I bend the stronger coat hanger and offer it to Vic but he’s been getting close with the first one so he keeps trying. The random dude says “you try the other window” which makes sense. I’ve never done this before, but there’s nothing complicated about it. He walks around the car with me and while I’m trying to hook the lock, he’s muttering something over and over in Arabic.

After a couple of minutes I loop it and the stronger hanger was the key. I pop the lock and we’re in. The man is delighted and makes me repeat the phrase he was saying. He was apparently asking for help from Allah and help was obviously granted since we got in.

And therefore we should convert to Islam.

He was really very nice and genuine, but the whole thing cracked me up…

Baby Journee:

This is probably only funny to people in Brooklyn. From Gothamist, Here’s What Brooklyn Looks Like According To Real Estate Brokers:

I apparently live in SouthWest Williamsburg…