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Matty and Sally were still in college when they decided to take their first trip to New York together. They had talked about it for a year and finally felt they had scraped enough money together for a weeklong stay. Sally was absolutely in love with Jude Law and insisted they see a production of Hamlet while they were there. Matty was interested in doing that, though he was also a bit more practical and wanted to plan out their major expenses in advance since they were on a limited budget. Sally would have been happy just arriving in the city and having a great time until the money was gone. But since Matty wanted to plan, she insisted that they include a performance of Hamlet as one of their priorities and even insisted they buy advance tickets.

They Matt a list of all the potential activities they wanted to do, at Matty’s enforced decision, and then he put an expected price next to each one. They went down the list and put a check mark by each of the events or places they wanted to go to the most and did this until they had run out of money. Matty really wanted to take a ferry ride out to Ellis Island and tour the statue of Liberty. He also wanted to go to the Empire State Building and visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These were the last things Sally wanted to do and resisted putting them on the list.

Finally Matty came up with an idea of how to do all of the activities on their list while also being able to eat every day. Sally actually had suggested that they skip eating one day to leave money for the production of Hamlet. Matty readjusted the amount of money they would spend on the resort and found a beautiful little New York cheap hotel they could stay in that would save them quite a bit of money. Sally thought that Matty was a genius and her slowly developing crush on him took a major evolutionary advancement. However, it still didn’t equal the one she had on Jude Law.