Sunday, Day 2 - The ferry ride over was fun with great views of the Statue of Liberty and the city skylines.

On Staten Island we barely made it on time to a musical comedy, "A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the Forum." It was very entertaining with lots of humor and scantily clad girls. - Photo by Fellow Tourist

The bus ride from Snug Harbor, where the musical was playing, back to the ferry terminal was the only time we had any concern for our safety. Although she was completely innocent of wrong doing, Mona was the cause of the whole thing (I cheerfully pointed out later).

There was a couple from the play waiting for the bus with us for about a half hour. The man was quite amiable, but his wife was an aggressive mess. On the bus she sat down near the back. Mona and I were standing. The lady got up and told Mona to take her seat. Mona told her no thanks, she was fine. There was a very large man with a vacant seat next to him on the outside. The lady went over, woke him from his dozing and told him she needed to sit there. He turned sideways to let her in and she ordered him to scoot over. From there things got ugly verbally. Mona and I quickly slipped up to the front of the bus.

The little lady with the big mouth and the big man with big everything went at it for several minutes. The bus driver kept a careful watch on things and we stayed near the front door in case we needed to bail. The lady finally relented and went back to her seat. Then her nice husband took it up with the man, defending his wife's honor. Big guy provided the best quote from the incident. "I see your hand in your pocket. You do what you gotta do, but don't think that I'm alone here." That went on for a couple of minutes until we mercifully arrived at the ferry terminal.

Later I told Mona the only reason the husband got involved was so he wouldn't catch it later from his wife for leaving it all up to her.