Law School Dad

Recurring Mission: Pick up Kayla and cohorts from nursery school in Teaneck at 1pm. When: Every Friday What's the Big Deal. Torts class on Fridays ends at 11.55am. Bus for Teaneck leaves the NY Port Authority Bus Terminal at 12.15pm. To make this bus, I have to: a. Pray some smartass in Torts doesn't prolong class by raising any issue that can conceivably relate to medical malpractice (Professor Stein's favorite tortious tangent) b. Sprint from 5th & 12th to the Union Square subway station at 14th and University Place. c. Pray there's an N, R, Q, or W train waiting on the platform (or rapidly approaching) d. Sprint from the 42nd Street subway stop on 7th avenue to Gate 210 on the top floor of the PA building on 8th avenue. e. Pray the bus is still there. As you can see, I'm relying rather heavily on G-d's benevolence here. According to an unofficial tally, the Almighty answers my prayers in the affirmative approximately 23% of the time (my success rate is dramatically lower for pleas to Heaven regarding sporting event outcomes), so I suspect my daughter's sense of abandonment will become more fully fleshed out over the coming weeks. -LSD