Up the Down Escalator

Saint Patrick's Day in New York City. Just past a year sober, I was finishing up some work in midtown Manhattan as the bagpipes were warming up and the crowds beginning to gather. In an effort to keep order at this traditionally tipsy event, the city had decreed NO BOOZE at, near, or on the way to the parade down Fifth Avenue, Bottles would be confiscated. Arrests would be made.