Strange Times

Posted in a phone booth on Manhattan's Lower East Side...

handwritten ad reading: Roommate Wanted, to share one-room studio apt. on Saint Marks Place with 2 guys for $250/mo. + sec. We're looking for a quiet, non-smoking cat lover to pay $250 a month plus $250 security deposit to share a one-room studio w/ 2 guys

Okay, lemme see if I've got this straight...I get to share a single room with two complete strangers and a cat. And it's only gonna cost two hundred and fifty bucks a month?

Ooh, pinch me! I must be dreaming!

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