It’s Actually Bananas if You Don’t Get This Free Benefits Card
^ Just try to achieve the same level of beauty as our senior yearbook pictures.
One of the most fascinating human phenomena is how people respond to free food. This curiosity began way before we were informed individuals, as on Halloween you were taught that every single stranger in your town would give you free candy if you went to their door and yelled “Trick or Treat”. Yes, the promise of free treats is wonderful and I can attest is still quite the lure; however if you knock on the wrong door and you get a Trick instead…I’ve seen enough Dateline to know the Reese’s Pieces probably aren’t worth it. Fast forward to college – any announcement of free food being offered at an RSO meeting and you better believe their attendance quadruples. The Student Cosplay Organization is offering free falafels for their comic book vision board session? Cool, I’ll be in the corner with a kiddie pool of hummus deciding if I would rather be Princess Peach or Hermione Granger.
In the Adult World, this peculiar human tendency still rears it’s ugly head. Normally, in real estate, most agents are out and about with offices lightly filled at any given time. Let’s pretend an email went out at 10am: “Attorney John Smith is coming in to speak at noon and is bringing Num Pang sandwiches.” Fast forward two hours, Susan has canceled her daughters 6th birthday party originally for that day, Peter moved his closing to the next day inconveniencing everyone, Karen agreed to throw a 15% referral to a minion to get out of showing her exclusive and Jerry somehow came back from his hibernation in Miami. People are salivating while John Smith discusses Offering Plans and once finished, the masses violently descend on the sandwiches like zombies who haven’t eaten in months, the strong shoving the weak and pregnant out of their way.
Well here is something else that’s free, but you can use it at your own will and the benefits are actually incredible. The IDNYC card is a fantastic opportunity to explore and access many of the wonders of New York City, either for free or on the cheap. Not only do you gain free access to most museums, but you also get exclusive discounts on CourseHorse, Citi Bike, and New York Road Runners to name a few. Following a fairly easy application process, your ID is processed and then you can cause whatever anarchy you desire at the likes of the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park Zoo, the Met, the MoMa, and the Park Avenue Armory.
Note to self: You are absolutely not allowed to smile in the picture. I would share mine but in the wrong hands, that picture could follow me forever. I started coughing with my mouth shut at the moment the lady took the picture so I look like a tick ready to explode. Cute visual, I know.
So pretend this card comes with free football sized bagel with lox and cream cheese.
Go be cultured, my friends.