Karen Johnston looked sheepishly at her watch.
“I thought it was a great idea,” she said. “It seemed like a great idea, you know?”
Johnston sipped at a margarita and picked at a basket of chips, sitting at a streetside booth inside Lucy’s, a cantina just across the street from Madison Square Garden a few hours before the Knicks would play the Wizards on Wednesday night. She took the MetroNorth to meet her husband for date night, bringing a Valentine’s Day gift she thought would’ve been a big hit: two seats, 200 level, mid-court.
“What basketball fan wouldn’t be thrilled that his wife wanted to see a Knicks game on Valentine’s?