Bloomberg reports that not everyone is freaking out over the prospect of a little more snow and are in fact keeping fingers crossed they’ll be forced to tell the wife/husband they’re stranded for the night. ‘Cause that’s when the real party* gets started.
Weather advisories calling for as much as 20 inches of snow prompted firms such as New York-based Jefferies & Co. to reserve hotel rooms in Manhattan as a precaution if employees can’t make their usual commutes. That’s good news to traders who welcome an evening at the pubs.
“Bars and restaurants are the beneficiaries of the blizzards,” said Doreen Mogavero, president and chief executive officer of Mogavero Lee & Co., a brokerage located on Broad Street in Manhattan. She plans to stay in the city tonight. “We always manage to make the best of it and have a good time — good friends, some dinner and a glass of wine in a gorgeous blizzard.”
*One night each year they get off from the nagging wife/fat husband and screaming children.
Equity trading slowed to 3.1 billion shares in the first two hours of trading today, down 15 percent from the average during the past five days, as the snow storm intensified along the East Coast, grounding thousands of flights and forcing schools and government offices to close. The Long Island Rail Road, the busiest U.S. commuter line, said it would add afternoon trains to accommodate workers heading home early.
“It’s called snow whiskey — you know you can’t get out, so you use it as an excuse to stay awhile,” said Kevin Joyce, a trader at Kellogg Partners Institutional Services LLC in New York. “I’m waiting to see what happens.”
I made it home and took care of the kids while about 6 inches fell here but my wife stayed in the City and said she got 8 inches later that night. Odd how snow falls different from place to place.
~AIG Quant
Jefferies was all you needed to know
LIRR tag says it all
That ain’t a blizzard. In Omaha, a blizzard is when the snow starts twirling down like a fat girl in an Omaha cat house “basket chair”. Now that’s a blizzard!
~Thrifty Guy in Omaha
@bess- I live in CT and commute the city. Can I spend the night?
Snowblowing? Oh, Bess, you’re the greatest!!!!
NYC > Chicago
I’m sure soma these guys’ll be blowin snow 2nite if yas know what I mean eh eh?
Oh, the silent majesty of a stranded winter’s night. The clean, cool chill of the snowy air. A night away from the lovely family. A collie ejaculating in my mouth so I can snowball it back into his.
@1, that’s fantastic.
8- if yer talkin about the beeper guy he ain;t going nowhere I’ll bet.
1 works on so many levels.
@5, Bess: sleepover at Bess’, all are invited!
@1, Outstanding
Remember when the guy with the epic Dykstra shitting on the floors got commended?
Bess needs to recognize 1 for that gem
No way, never works. All you need is one asshole who makes it home to Darien on time, all the other wives find out, and the shit hits the fan.
@2 care to explain?
@17I remember it, because it made me laugh out loud, several times. The above is clever, but does not come close to the LD comment.
@15 black ice is no laughing matter.
16- there are assholes in Darien?
@16 – Make them reconsider by ominously warning them that ‘Accident’s happen’.
@21 – thats Darien’s motto
Did Erin find a Texas Longhorn?
Why is it called “black ice”?
~Nat X
@24 nice chris rock refernece
Is Jeffries kind of like a Lebenthal?
@ 23
Erin did just in time for Valentine’s.