Now where is Wisconsin again?

While my sister is at work, and I am jobless, I am being used as a personal assistant. Today's job was to bring her two garbage bags of clothes to Beacon's Closet in Brooklyn. The bags were heavy and annoying to carry. I was especially excited about being put to this task after I first got on the subway going the wrong direction in Brooklyn. Eventually I made it to the correct stop, but realized I had to walk really far to reach my destination, and I did not know which direction to start off in. Luckily, I had the moleskin New York guide that Julie had given me for my birthday. Thanks to that thing, I made an educated guess, and walked 12 blocks in the right direction, while looking like a homeless person. Now this is where my story got interesting...
A man walking a dog comes up and asks me if I wanted help caring the bags. I told him no thank you so he went ahead, but was waiting at the next light and asked me again if I wanted help. I was struggling and it was only another block so I said ok. As we walk the two blocks to the resale store, he tells me how he makes bags for dogs and was walking his dog to the park when he saw me. He decided to run up to catch up with me to help. I was grateful to have a good samaritan and we parted ways.
The people at the resale store said it would be 35-40 minutes so I decided to walk around the neighborhood. My good friend Sam, the man from before, was suddenly behind me. Apparently he saw me walking around again and ran out of his apartment to find me. He's pretty much the typical native New Yorker who's never flown in a plane and had no idea where Wisconsin was (northeast of here maybe?). I told him a little about the Midwest and then he proceeded to tell me all the secrets of religion and how to live a happy life. Did I mention this was after he told me that if he hadn't seen me walking by, he'd probably be smoking a joint? Well, the next 15 min of our walk were dedicated to The Secret, you know, the one that Oprah talks about. He even offered me a copy of The Secret video. I told him thanks but no thanks, I'm more of a reader....