[article] [nyc #1] The Girl That Sleeps Moves to the City That Never Sleeps
First in my series of articles where I log my adventures in New York, as I trudge my way through software engineering, expensive restaurants, dirty subways, and of course - laundry and taxes. I was dispossessed of $700 within a couple hours of landing in New York City. That’s around 56,000 rupees - which is a HUGE amount of money by Indian standards. Not a moment I like to relive, as much as my friends like to remind me of it every opportunity they get. I’m going to keep it short. It was 4 AM, Indian time. In my sleepy stupor and haste to get home (or as close to home as the corporate housing I had been provided with could get), I gave away three hundred dollar notes instead of one dollar notes to the guy handing out luggage trolleys at the airport. Obviously unintentional - unlike Indian currency notes, notes of all denominations are of the same color here (why?). If the trolley guy noticed my blunder, he didn’t point it out. As if this wasn’t enough for the day, I then got scammed b