I Don't Kiss by David Leddick

Author:David Leddick [Leddick, David]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: White Lake Press
Published: 2020-06-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Alone in New York

I was always hesitant about going out alone in New York because Aunt Marie was sure that one of her relatives was going to be kidnapped on the streets or in a taxi.

“Don't walk too near the curb," she would say. And "If your taxi goes past the address you asked for, just open the door and get out when it stops for a light." In fact, she said, "when he stops for a light." All taxi drivers were men and white in those days. It was always a man who was going to do you some harm and because I was young and not fully grown she was concerned that something would happen to me as well as my girl cousins.

And to be honest I was never an adventurous type. I did not long to be let out to roam the streets of the city by myself. But I was hurled into it when my brother Hartford called and said he would be in New York for a few days and would like to see the family. It was to be mid-week and precisely a time when Aunt Marie and Uncle Anchor had to be with their big blanket client in Chicago. So I was pressed into service.

Aunt Marie called the country and asked if I could come into town and meet Hartford's train and spend the afternoon and evening with him and put him back on the train the next day. Which I did. But I also had the temerity to call Tim Harrison in New York and tell him I was coming into the city. I rather amazed myself. I called the operator in New York and got his number in Greenwich Village. I knew he lived on Morton Street so when the operator told me there was a number of T. Harrisons in New York and even several Tim Harrisons I was able to narrow it down for her.

I waited until evening and called him. Bedford 2-2432. He was surprised.

“I’ll be in New York tomorrow and Wednesday?” I said.

“Can you stay overnight?” he said.

“Not tomorrow. I'll be in the apartment on East 73rd Street with my brother. But I could stay over Wednesday night.”

“I'm getting a hard on just thinking about it,” Tim said.

I wasn't going to talk dirty on the telephone. “Where should I meet you?” I said. “I'm taking my brother to the train in the afternoon around four o’clock.”

“Why don't you come to my apartment? I get off at five. I'll come right down there and be there about five-thirty. I live at 98 Morton Street. Think you can find it? You take the sub way down to Christopher Street and get off and Bedford is right off there to the right as you're going downtown.”

I was completely lost listening to these instructions. “I’ll take a cab,” I said. “I don't know how to use the subway but I know where to get a taxi in Penn Station.” Aunt

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