Lights, Camera, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning....

It's always exciting to see a film being made on the Upper East Side. The cameras,the swarm of techies, the anxious crowds cameras in hand, waiting to see a real life movie star on set. Yeah, it is something that can really make your day, unless of course, the tech truck is parked in front of your window and it's a cold day so the motor is running and diesel is pouring into your apartment because the techies need to keep warm in the cab of the truck. I didn't blame them but I didn't want to die and I didn't want my daughter and dog dead either. So it went throughout the day and into the night, someone would turn on the truck to get warm and I would go out and ask very politely for them to turn it off, because by the way there is a law in Manhattan that you can't idle a truck on the streets; they would kindly turn off the truck but sooner or later another frigid techie would come and turn on the truck and on and on and on. Finally, I decided that it was pretty fruitless to continue the tit for tat so I went out to talk to the techies I was tormenting and ask what exactly the movie was they were shooting. The movie was, When In Rome, with Josh Dushamel and Kristen Bell, who were nowhere to be seen. I thanked the techie and he handed me a plastic wrapped tuna salad sandwich the perfect thing to top off my carbon monoxide poisoning, a little mercury poisoning. I took some pictures and took a walk Around The Block to clear my head and when I got back the techies were busy shutting down the set, filling the trucks, that were of course idling. I watched them from my window, enjoying my tuna salad...