"#NEW YORK WAITING#" "Hi, you've reached the Voice Mail of Sidney Anderson." "Please leave me a message and I call you back." "Hi." "It's me, Coreen." "I'm at the airport." "I just got into San Diego." "Look, I don't know why I am here." "I just, I just need sometime away from you." "And maybe if you just give me some time, a lot of time, maybe things could change." "Look, I got to go." "Bye." "One year later" "So, I guess this is how it begins." "I guess there was a point where I could have walked away from this." "But, I think when I got your message from San Diego, I decided there and then, that if I was going to do this, then I would really do it." "Just blind myself to anything else and give this thing one last chance." "I've thought about you a lot, in the past few days more than ever." "And now, now I can't escape the feeling that this is the beginning of a great big adventure and I can't wait to see how it all turns out." "Monday" "2Days 8h 49min 16s" "Taxi!" "Just going into Manhattan." "You got it." "Do you mind if I ride in the front?" "Yeah, I do." "No, Charlie will open up the LC." "And." "After that no they can't run a call center to save their lives." "Can you hold one second?" "OK." "Hi, how you doin'?" "Hey I've missed you..." "That's a nice thing to say." "C'mon, get in." "I put your bag in the back here." "Year, I'm right there." "Hey hold on one second, OK?" "Here you go, that's right." "No, I mean, if those guys screwed up, I'm gonna have to call germany and make sure everything is OK." "All right?" "Year, exactly." "I don't know." "Whatever." "All right." "We'll talk, we'll talk..." "Hey, Amy, what are you doing here?" "How are you?" " I'm good." "I'm a little tired." "I had a layover in Kansas City, so." " When did you get in?" "Just a couple of hours ago." " Hey buddy." "What's up?" "You OK?" " Year, ready to do business." " Hey sweety, look at you." "All ready for dinner." "Good too see you." "Hey, what do you need buddy?" "I got beer wine..." "A beer would be nice." " We got pops vodka Martini." "I make a great martini." "Bone dry." "I got onions..." "How about beer?" " I got lemon twist." "I got every kind of drink you could possibly want in here." "Juices." "I got coconut and papaya." "I got..." "I can make a Cap Cod'er, how about that?" "Nice and refreshing." "Or champaine!" " I am thinking of beer." "I got an old bottle." "Very good bootle, year." "Vera expansive." "Or wine." "How about wine?" "Here you go buddy, bust this bad boy open will you." "Just what I wanted." " How about you honey, you OK?" "Yeah, yeah, I just have wine." " Yeah, you need anything, you sure?" "No, no, I'm fine." " Ok, I'll go get dressed." "DVDs are under the flat screen, remotes are in the drawer." "You can do any thing you want." "OK?" "You sure you don't need anything?" " Year, year, I'm fine." "We'll you go get dressed, we gonna leave in twenty minutes!" "Scallops are great." "I'll tell you, I was in here last week the scallops are to die for." "Yeah, I can go for some scallops." "If we are ordering I'll have some." "Scallops are great." " Michael, for everyone we order, scallops." "Sure, we'll order some for the table." "We'll all have some." "Sharing, like one big happy family." "Scallops, nice dinner, nice company." "Then, Michael, you take us to strip bar!" "No, no, not tonight, buddy." " I already got a date." "Amy, if Michael takes us to strip bar, you go with us." "You can keep an eye on him." "Thanks, I think I'll pass on the naked women, if you don't mind." "OK, let's just ahhh drop the whole stripper theme for a second, shall we?" "Let's focus on dinner, you know, we got cocktails coming, scallops" "Amy, did you and Mike ever went to dinner with these guys before?" "They're pretty funny, but they are married and their wives kind a keep them on a tight leash." "So, they sort of like to be talked into misbehaving." "Mike knows this, it's, ahm, just a business thing." "Thanks, it's ok though." " All right guys, you'll have to excuse me for a minute." "Ex, you good on ordering for us if the girl shows?" "Yeah, scallops for the table with some strippers sprinkled on top, got it!" "Hey, you are supposed to be on my side on this one." "Doing what I can." " How about you honey?" "You Ok?" "You need any thing?" " I'm good." " Ok, I'll be back in a flash." "Go ahead and order whatever you want." "It's on the house." "Like he owns the restaurant" "Michael!" "Michael!" "There is someone at the door." "Michael!" "There's somebody at the door." "What?" " There's somebody at the door!" "What?" " Somebody at the door!" "I can't hear you, I can't, I can't hear you I'll be out in a second." "Tuesday" "1 Day 11h 09m 03s" "I thought about you a lot." "In the past few days more than ever." "People come and go." "Most you don't even notice." "And maybe you just get too used to them." "And then when you least expect it." "Someone touches you." "Do you mind if I sit here?" " No, go ahead." "It's all right, I don't mind." "No, I shouldn't smoke, well, I mean I don't smoke, not really, but" "How are you?" "Can I get for you anything?" "Yeah, can I please get a cup of coffee?" " Sure, wound you like anything to eat?" "Or would you like to see a menu?" " No, thanks." "Just the coffee is fine." "How about you?" "Would you like a re-fill on that?" "Yeah, I will have some more." "Thank you." "Just a heads up, I`m going to snap a picture of my plate." "So don't be freaked out." "I'm not trying to sneak a picture of you." "Yeah, I know I don't blame you." "So?" " It's for this... crazy letter that I'm writing." "that's, nice crazy photo, letter?" "It's a crazy love letter actually, with photos." "That's an honest answer." "People don't write enough love letters these days, I'll tell you that much." "Sure don't." "Well, not crazy ones with photos anyway." "No, anyways..." "So, what do you write on a photo of an empty plate that's going into a crazy love letter?" "Very nice cake, now gone!" "Thank you." "Why?" "I needed a smile..." "And that made me smile." "OK, so I guess this is the moment where I ask you why you need to smile?" "Yeah..." "Thank you." " Thank you." " Here you go." "Let me just grab that." "Hey, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to put you on the spot like that." "That wasn't my intension." " It's OK." "I'll hang it out there." "Why do you need to smile?" "It's the same old boring story you've heard a million times, just left some guy." "Left, as in packed up my bags and was out the door before dawn left." "So is that a good thing or a bad thing?" "You tell me..." "So, who's the lucky girl?" "Well, long story short, if all goes well, she'll be meeting me here tomorrow." "What's with all the letter writing, then?" "I mean, if you are going to see her tomorrow?" "Yeah... that's the crazy bit." "I don't actually know if she's showing up." "I kind of sent her a plane ticket and then I threw my cell phone into the ocean." "So she, she either shows up or she doesn't." "So, this is your big play then?" " Yes, yes, it is." "But I told you it was kind' a nutty." "Let me guess." "Top of Empire State Building?" "Sunset?" " I am afraid so..." "Like I said who's the lucky girl?" "Her name is Coreen." "We..." "I don't know, stayed together in Florida for a while.." "Anyways, It's been..." "It's been almost a year since I've seen her." "So, hopefully she shows up tomorrow and the waiting is over." "But you don't know?" " No, I don't." "So the drama continues, I suppose." "And what about you?" "Sounds like you've got your own drama going." "Yeah, more than I'd like." "Packed my stuff, left at dawn, before he was even awake, actually." "I called the airline but I couldn't get a flight out till early tomorrow morning." "And..." "I don't really know anybody here except for a few of Michaels friends, and buying the new plane ticket back to San Francisco kind of tapped me out for cash." "So I'm trying to get a hold of an old friend from college see if I can maybe stay at her place tonight." "But, no luck so far." "So I stuck all my luggage in a locker at Penn station, and..." "You are pretty much looking at a 24 hour homeless person" "Yeah, there's my drama." "Well, it sounds like its a day of waiting for you and me both." "Hey... thanks for the seat." "Year, sure." " And good luck." "Thank you, thank you." "You, too." " Thanks." "Hey, I don't mean to be pushy, but would you want to go for a walk with me?" "This is like my third stop for coffee and it's clearly not working" "I'm too restless to sit down." "Be really nice to have the company.." "You know what, I'm sorry." "Never mind, that's totally presumptuous." " No, No, listen." "I'm sorry." "It's no big thing it's a couple of nameless strangers talking, right?" "Ya." " Yeah, I'll go for a walk..." "All right." "So, you didn't answer my question before." "Are you happy or sad about walking away from this Michael guy?" "Part of me, just want to go back tell him I went for a walk pretend like nothing happened." "You don't think he'd notice with all your stuff gone?" "That's just it, I don't think he would." "He'd be like:" "Hey babe, where you been this morning?" "And then, it'd be like nothing happened." "There've been guys, but they've always come and gone without me really make it happen, one way or the other." "They've been there with the dinners and the trips, sex and desire, and all the things you're supposed to have." "But I don't know if they've really been there." "I don't know if I've ever really been there." "It's been easy and comfortable, and I am just not so sure any more that that's the best thing to build a relationship on, you know?" "Maybe easy and comfortable is where you should end up, you know not, where you start." "It's always such a surprise, you know..." "One minute you think you got it all figured out, and then the next..." "Well sure..." "You know big stuff like that doesn't wait for you to be ready" "It just comes at you.." "You should eat something..." "I fucking hate fucking Florida." "Everybody's so..." "Florida." "Just eat some sugar, will you?" "I think we gonn'a have to go back on the ocean." "What's wrong with the waterway?" "Sun's gonn'a set." "The ocean's faster." "It's pretty peaceful at dusk." "You know." "It's nice." "I hate the fucking ocean..." "What the fuck is wrong with you?" "Wine broke..." " Fuck the wine." "Are you trying really hard to make yourself miserable?" "I mean..." "Are you?" "You got it?" " Yeah." "Could you give me a second?" " OK." "Hey Jen..." "How've you been?" " I'm all right." "What's going on with you?" " Just a boat trip..." "Listen..." "Is that..." "Is that her?" "Yeah." "I'm sorry..." "Look, give me a call some time." "Yeah." "Did you ever leave someone in a way that was significant." "That shook, you?" "Yeah, when I met Coreen I did." "I was with someone, and I just gave up." "And sometimes I think, I might have had true love there family, the kids, the whole thing..." "Did you love her back?" "I don't know." "I mean I tell my self that it was ending anyways." "But I didn't really put up much of a fight..." "That was a bit of a low point..." "Anyways things change, people change." "Do you change?" "I mean, do people?" "Yeah, I think so." "I mean they might not know it, but, yeah, I think so." "I mean, I think sometimes the key to change is not to change at all." "You'll never know you've turned a corner if you're just following a curve just floating." "Ok, so, take a guy like Columbus, for example." "I mean he changed the world." "But if you look at it from his perspective." "He leaves a place surrounded by a bunch of whities in funny costumes, sails for three months and lands in a completely different place surrounded by better tanned people in funny costumes." "There is not a lot of change there." "Now, what if the earth was actually flat, and he sails for three months and then just falls right of the edge there is some change." "I don't know." "I am just saying that maybe to know change you have to stay the same for a while." "So what are you saying then we should live in the past?" "No, I didn't say that..." "I mean it would be funny to go back in time..." "OK, so favorite moment in history if you could go back?" "I don't know signing of the declaration of independence?" "C'mon!" "That's fuckin' boring." "You can do better that that!" " All right, all right..." "Christopher Columbus going over the edge?" "Now, that's a good one!" "If it actually happened, that might be my choice, too." "You go." " Serious?" "Well, right over those trees there, actually..." "The great lawn, September the 19th 1981." "Concert in the park with Simon and Garfunkel." "I am serious, year I mean two guys and their guitars, they didn't take a dime." "500.000 people just came strolling in of the streets and sat down in the grass." "I mean they've been split up for, like, all right 11 years, and they couldn't quit keep it together after the show..." "But for an hour and a half it was all good..." "It was all good." "Michael has pictures of us together in his living room." "Just like pictures of us at a party, or a dinner, whatever..." "Three of them, sitting there on the coffee table." "And they were always this constant reminder of how fucked up our relationship really was." "Why is that?" "Cause he only put them out when I was there." "Well, how do you know that?" "Because once guess like two months ago, he forgot to put them out." "Really?" "Ups." "By accident I found them in a drawer." "And then, the next day there they were, sitting on the coffee table again." "I mean I couldn't believe it." "He just put them out, thinking I wouldn't even notice." "You know..." "So the pictures, had become this constant reminder that he's not committed to me." "They're just these things sitting out in plain sight, telling me that he is seeing other women, you know." "Well, maybe there's a good reason." "No." "Sometimes you know what's going on, but you chose to ignore it, cause if you don't then the whole fucking house of cards comes crashing down." "So, it's better to pretend like nothing happened." "And instead of leaving, you convince yourself it'll all be alright." "And you hang on." "Even though everything around you screams at you to get the hell out." "So, he's a player, Michael?" "Do you know the definition of a player?" "I didn't know there was one." " Well, yes, yes, there is." "According to popular masculine urban culture." "On one of the flights, I was reading a GQ or some other guy magazine that someone had left in the seat pocket." "A bad boy, is someone who dates several women, but doesn't try to hide it." "A player is someone who does." "Sad thing was, it wasn't like one or the other was a bad thing." "It was just like a guide, or a dictionary to male urban life." "So, why do you see guys like him?" "If you can see all these things for what they really are, why?" "Because it's easy." "Because they're easy, I guess." "Well, look, you're on a plane out of here tomorrow." "I mean that's a clean slate if you want it..." "Here." "That's you tomorrow..." "It's an open sky a new day." "You can do whatever you want." "Me, on the other hand..." "Hey..." "Thank you." "You know I know that guy, the player guy." "He's a friend of mine" "I bought Coreen a pearl once for her birthday..." "Funny, I don't see you as the guy giving jewelry away..." "Seems too easy for you." "You seem like you'd like to make thinks more complicated." "I didn't say jewelry, I said a pearl." "There's a big difference." "Anyways, this guy calls me up, like a couple of weeks before Christmas and he wants to meet me for lunch." "So I go meet him and he's at Tiffany's, buying like a little gold heart necklace for his girl friend." "Thing is, he buys two of them one for his girl friend and one for another girl he's seeing at the same time." "Yeah, now, I don't care, if he wants to do that, that's his business, you know." "But while I am there waiting I see this picture of a pearl necklace and" "I get this idea in my head to get Coreen a single un-threaded pearl." "You know and with time another one on any significant day or event." "And over time something would become of it, doesn't matter what." "Could be anything." "But it would be something where each pearl would have a story to tell." "It's a great gift." "Moral being?" "Well the moral being is if you're gonn'a get someone a gift, maybe you should earn it." "Maybe the player guy maybe your Michael guy maybe they buy their gold necklaces in bulk." "I don't know." "Where's the justice, you know..." "Hey." "You got a friend." " Hey" "Nice." "You know some people say that if you make a wish on a ladybug and it flies away, then your whish will come true." "Really?" "Make you a deal, let's both make a silent wish for what we want, see if it comes true." "OK." "All right." "Ready?" "Right now?" " Yeah, let's go." "OK." "She is still there..." "All right, well, let's leave her here in the grass and if my whish comes true, then we know she flew away." "And even if I never see you again, then, I think maybe your wish came true also." "What?" "Nothing, just watching you." "I think you're a good person." "Are you OK with this you and me spending the day together." "I mean, you're here to do this incredible thing for this girl and I don't know." "I just don't want to..." "No, look, there is nothing about today that can change anything about tomorrow." "You know, today was just a was a great day." "And some day, I'll remember that woman I spent a whole day with in New York, who's name I never knew." "Why is that that we don't know each other's names?" "We should keep this simple." "You know, I mean, this is, you know it's simple." "You know what, I should go." "I'm gonna go call my college friend, see if she's back yet." "OK." " Will you wait for me here?" " Yeah." " OK." "And I've got like 30 dollars or so left on my credit card, so dinner is on me, OK?" "Hey, is everything OK?" " Yeah, it was great, thank you." "Great." " Do you want separate checks or do you want everything on your credit card?" "No, no." "Here, that should cover it." " OK, thanks, do you want change?" "Thank you, no, that's it." "Thank you," "Hey!" "Sir!" "Credit card!" "Excuse me, the guy that I was here with we were sitting right over there." "Yeah, he left." "But is this your credit card?" " Yeah, thank you." "Should hold on to that." "Hey, you coming?" "I thought you'd left." " No, I just had to get some air." "Let's go." "Her father died." "Your college friend's?" "Yeah." " What happened?" "Car accident." "Didn't really seem like the best time to come crashing, you know." "Look, if you need a place to stay, you can stay with me." "What about simple?" "Well, you're leaving tomorrow." "That's simple enough." "Sorry I was such a bitch today." " Yeah." "I swear next time I'm gonn'a take that candy bar, I'm gonna melt it down, put it in a syringe and I'm gonn'a fuckin' inject you with it." "Hey, listen to me, listen to me." "As fucked up as this thing is between you and me and it's a little fucked up it was my choice." "It was always my choice." "619 who the hell is that?" "Hello." "Sidney." "Anderson, yeah, she's here." "It's for you." "Hello." "Hey." "Yeah, I was meaning to call you." "No, he's I'll tell you when I see you I." "He's just some stupid guy I met in San Diego." "So, why New York?" "Well, if you're gonn'a send a girl a plane ticket." "It's not like you're going to pick Cleveland." "Look at this..." "I guess Paris would do, but..." "No, this is beautiful." "Yeah." "The taxi driver from the airport wasn't too big on it." "He just kept going on and on about how bad the City was." "How people move here from out of town and get stuck in shitty jobs." "Still, he's here he didn't leave." "Maybe he doesn't have a choice." "Maybe he coudn't leave even if he wanted to." "He's in a car all day with a tank full of gas" "Yeah, well." "Sometimes things just don't work out." "Do you remember how I told you I got Coreen a pearl for her birthday." "Yeah." " Well, that didn't really work out..." "I thought it might be the one thing that would help win her over..." "Instead I was left with this knot in my stomach." "Feeling like I done something that I shouldn't have." "Next thing I knew, I'd be running off in the rain." "What are you going to do." "I mean if she doesn't show up tomorrow?" "Get drunk ride around in a cab." "Isn't that what you're supposed to do?" "Honestly." "I'll go back to Florida." "Try to figure out some new way of..." "It's getting late." "We should get some sleep." "4.21 a.m." "15h 38m 16s" "Hey you awake?" "Yeah." " I have to go soon." "I have a question, that I have to ask you..." "A thing, I guess, that I don't really understand..." "If she comes tomorrow, then will everything be all right?" "Is that the journeys end?" "Do you want to know the truth?" "I'm actually afraid I'll quit." "I'm afraid, I'll give up on her right when I'm close to getting what I want." "But for how long I mean how long can you keep doing that?" "I don't know." "Till something changes, I guess." "Didn't something change today?" "What do you mean?" "Something changed for me today." "I left some guy this morning that I had been clinging onto for all of the wrong reasons." "Someone who didn't have it in him to be committed to anybody else." "Somehow, for me, that had become the norm." "So, I thought, it was supposed to be." "That's how it had been for me as long as I can remember." "And I really didn't even think it could be any other way." "But I do now..." "Don't please..." "But I do..." "You made me believe a little bit today..." "Do this thing." "Go to the top of Empire state building and do this crazy beautiful thing," "but if it doesn't work out." "Give this, give us a chance just to spend some time together." "I can't do that." "I'm sorry." "I can't." "I can't go into this thing with a back up plan in place." "I just can't." "I can't play it safe." "I'm sorry." "I have to go." "My plane is leaving." "I didn't look at your credit card." "I still don't know what's your name is." "Do you want to?" "Yes but I can't." "Thank you." " Yeah, well..." "I had the room anyway..." "I know..." "You did make me believe in something better." "Wednesday" "9h 49m 15s" "Are you Sidney?" " Yeah?" "I was told to look for you here." "This was e-mailed to me." "I'm supposed to give it to you." "She said she is sorry that she didn't come." "I don't even know her that well." "Anyway, she wanted me to tell you that she is really sorry." "I guess that's what the note says." "I didn't read it." " Thank you." "Look, I don't know what all this means." "But, are you going to be OK?" "Yeah, no, I'll be fine." "Thank you." "I'm really sorry." "It was nice to meet you." "It's raining outside." "I got your ticket." "Thank you." "You know what today is?" "Happy birthday." "It's not a finished thing..." "It's just a..." "It's a nice little thing of it's own that maybe with time can become something more." "It's beautiful." "It makes me sad when you give me things." "When you do beautiful things for me." "Look, Sidney." "I'm going to San Diego tomorrow to see Joe." "And I feel like I'm cheating on you." "I don't want to feel that way." "Don't..." "Love me so much..." "Sidney please..." "Be my friend." "Maybe we shouldn't do this any more." "Maybe we shouldn't..." "Would you believe me if I told you, that I wanted to love you?" "You know, just so there aren't any misunderstandings." "I'll marry you, right here, right on this beach, right now." "We have to go, my plane is leaving." "Yeah, I know." "I'm going to go see Joe." "You and I we were in the pool and we made love" "and two days later I'm going off to see Joe in San Diego." "Doesn't that tell you something?" "Doesn't that make you mad?" "I mean doesn't it..." "I made you pay for the ticket." "I made you fucking pay for the ticket." "Hey, hey..." "Hey." "It's all right, it's all right." "You shouldn't have to settle for that." "No one should." "Why do you hang on to me?" "I'm no good for you." "I..." "You're my best friend, and maybe somewhere deep inside, I even love you, but that's just not where I'm at right now." "I can't..." "Then go, go..." "Find what you need." "It's all right for you to follow your heart, even if you don't know how things going to play out." "It's all right" "So, I'm all set then?" "Going back to Florida tomorrow morning?" "Yeah, can I read that back to you?" "T, 5, 6, 1, X" "Yeah, and that's flight 892, leaving at 9.35 a.m. for Miami." "OK." "Thank you." "Sidney." "Yeah, I got your name from the front desk at the Hotel." "Sidney." "I like it..." "If you're reading this, I'm assuming you're by yourself and that Coreen never showed up." "I'm sorry she didn't come." "You've met Jenny, she's my college friend." "I felt bad making her go deliver this note to you with her father and all, but..." "I'm back in San Francisco, got in a few hour's ago." "Cat was hungry, the neighbor forgot to feed him again." "I've been pacing, wondering if I should do this." "It's all crazy, it's at least slightly insane." "I think part of you has maybe rubbed of on me." "I can't say I understand you, or that I understand this relationship you have with Coreen." "I don't even know if yours is a good relationship." "I don't know if good will come from it." "But I do see the beauty in what you are doing." "I see it, and I'm amazed." "Amazed at the fact that someone would have that kind of faith in someone else, in love." "Maybe the world is full of people like you, maybe I see them every day on the freeway, in the store, in the places I go every day." "Maybe they are all around me, but until yesterday I never met one of you." "Maybe I was always too quick to go the easy way and let some one else choose to love me, rather than making that choice my self." "But I don't know if they ever really loved me." "I don't know if I ever really loved them." "I'd have desire for them, but, that's always where it stopped." "There should be more than that." "Something in what you are telling me, says you and Coreen will never happen." "If I thought Coreen would show up, I'd let you go, and be happy for you." "I'd let you go and tell myself I was lucky to meet you." "Lucky to meet you at a time I needed to meet someone like you." "I'll never stand on the top of a tall building waiting for you but, if you're ever in San Francisco, look me up." "Let's spend some time together and see where things take us." "Love Amy." "So, I guess this is how it begins, this is how my good-buy to you begins." "Looking back, I think I always knew, you wouldn't come to New York." "But to my surprise out over the wild bright blue someone did for me a little bit of what I've been trying to do for you." "Someone reached out." "Someone went beyond the ordinary." "And to my astonishment I saw little bit of myself reflected in her." "And I knew." "Maybe it's time for me stop being the same, maybe it's time for me to turn the corner, to fall of the edge." "You probably guessed it, and yes, I did bring a pearl for you to the top of the Empire State Building." "I always thought those pearls would come at a special moment." "And I guess this, this moment." "Is just that." "Love, Sidney." " Please fold your tray tables and put your seats in the upright position." "At this time we also ask you to discontinue the use of any portable electronic devices." "We should be on the ground here in about 10 minutes." "And on behalf of our flight-crew we whish you a pleasant stay in beautiful San Francisco, or the place of your final destination."