<p>I was so relieved to learn that the ferry that crashed this morning was NOT coming from Staten Island. My heart was in my throat as I searched the article for this information. Now that I think about it, you take a commuter bus, not the ferry.</p>
<p>She takes the express bus into the city from SI</p>
<p>Thank you for thinking of me! I am back to the ferry again because the bus has gotten so expensive. D1 commutes by ferry, though, thank you Sybbie! The one that crashed was private, though. I am not confident that there is real oversight of ferry operations.</p>
<p>Being the only person I “know” who lives on SI, I thought of you immediately, too! Glad to hear you and your D weren’t on the ferry!</p>
<p>Phew, zm is OK! I just finished feeding Mr B and turned on my computer to check the news… How awful.</p>
<p>Thank you so much guys. Really. Your kindness means more than I can say.</p>
<p>I think the ferry in the accident traveled from NJ to Manhattan.</p>
<p>When I read the headline for the story, it didn’t identify the departure spot, and I, too, first thought of you, zoosermom. I’m happy to hear that you’re okay and I hope that proves to be the case for those who were injured this morning.</p>
<p>Just read the story - how awful. So glad you and D1 are ok, zm!</p>
<p>If an angel of death came for zoosermom while PBK (Precious Baby King) was still with us, I’d bet on zooosermom not going!!!</p>
<p>I agree, Dad07! I’m laughing thinking of zm standing up to the angel of death. My money’s on zm!</p>
<p>I told my DD that I met great and caring “friends” on CC. This confirms it! Have any of you tried to “picture” what fellow posters look like? Maybe a new thread!</p>
<p>Great idea for a thread, ECmother! I do have vague mental images of some posters, probably all wrong.</p>
<p>I have to say I had a bad picture this morning of zm. When I saw that a ferry had crashed into lower Manhattan, of course the Staten Island ferry popped into my mind, and then of course zm popped into my mind. As I scanned the article, looking for information on where the ferry had originated, I read about people on stretchers and had a few bad seconds until I saw that it came from NJ.</p>
<p>I do feel guilty feeling relieved to find out that no one I know would have been on the ferry, as if the injured people are less important because they are strangers to me.</p>
<p>07dad has it right! Heaven should only help the angel of death if he tried to take me before the PBK is fully cooked. A boy needs his mom, you know?</p>
<p>LOL, zm! And they continue to be boys well into their fourties, or wait, is it sixties? The angel will be waiting for quite awhile ;)</p>
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<p>Since this is technically impossible … unless the bus either grew wings or gills 
… I should probably explain …</p>
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<li><p>The express bus most likely goes over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge into Brooklyn and then over another bridge (or tunnel) into Manhattan.</p></li>
<li><p>Manhattan is what New Yorkers call “the city.”</p></li>
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<p>Yes. </p>
<p>ZM, glad you’re OK. My money is on you in that fight as well :D</p>
<p>There is one CC poster who has friends who were injured on the ferry, and she herself takes it sometimes. Too close to home!</p>
<p>Golf father, many express buses from Staten Island actually travel through New Jersey as does mine when I take it.</p>
<p>I spoke to one of PBK’s teachers total and she told me in absolute seriousness that I shouldn’t expect full maturity in a boy until age 23. I’ve been boozing ever since.</p>
<p>zoosermom–at least in my experience, birth to 23 seems to go way, way (too) fast with a son. If I could wish you anything–enjoy the ride and his music!</p>
<p>Italian, short, endowed, robust (or fierce–depending on what’s involved) and feisty and a paralegal or legal sec? Close?</p>