Tourist Time

Yesterday at noon, we were supposed to have a guest speaker from out of town. We planned a luncheon for 12:30 pm, after the half hour talk. All of the doctors arranged their schedules to be free from 12 - 1 pm for the discussion. Twelve, twelve fifteen, twelve thirty, one o'clock, no speaker. We opened up the pizzas and ate. In the meantime I tried to call the man's cell phone but no answer. At 1:15pm a very nice man walks in the door. So, here is the story why he was late. He made a speech in Manhattan and then had to go to Penn Station to take the train to Great Neck. The taxi ride took 20 minutes and by that time he missed his train. He tried to call but there was no reception that far below ground. Since the doctors were now seeing patients, I had to sit in on the meeting to "fill a seat". It was actually very interesting. Now we get to the funny part. He never needed to take a taxi to Penn Station. He was 1 block away the whole time. He could have walked it in 3 minutes. Shame on the taxi driver.