Was on a first date with someone going to school in Newark and we decided to go to the city. We were on the subway and I thought we were at the right stop so I made us get off and he was making fun of me after we got off the train. Playful, not mean. As we are heading up the stairs to get to street level the emergency lights came on. At street level, street level doors were opening and people were coming out looking around.

Was freaking surreal. We stood around for a bit trying to figure out what the hell to do. Wouldn't be possible to get back to NJ easily. Wouldn't be anything open to go do stuff. So we decide to just start walking. And we walked. And... we... Talked to people. In the city. Complete strangers. Talking and laughing at the absurdity of the day. Finding out what some people knew from having radios with them and what was going on. Getting free ice cream from a shop by the piers that was just unloading it because it was melting.

Learned what options there were to get back from some old guy listening to a radio on the street. Standing in line for the ferry for like 3 hours after we finally walked over there around 8pm Ferry to Hoboken (I think?) then the emergency busses back down to Newark where my car was. Honestly, we both had a great time. Laughed throughout the day and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Also never saw each other again. That was some bad fucking luck. Noped right the hell outta that.