Only In New York

The recent 40th anniversary edition of New York Magazine, and an October 6th interview on Gothamist both have me thinking about memorable New York experiences. Everyone has at least one story of some crazy thing they either witnessed or took part in that just make you say, "Only in New York." For some it's one defining moment, for others it's a conglomerate of little everyday occurrences. I would have to say that my two favorite "Only in New York" moments, both of which happened not to me but to my husband, would be:

1. The time he was walking through midtown, and two tourists asked him how far of a walk it was to the Statue of Liberty. Clearly they had never noticed that she lives on her own private island, nor had they brought their swimmies.

2. The time he walked by two men out on a stoop arguing with each other over which one of them was "more homeless" than the other. We're not really sure whether they each thought they personally were more homeless, or the other was, but no one really wins in that argument anyway.

I have a few others, but I'll save them for another time when I can't think of anything to write. I'll just leave you with a picture I took this morning of a rice cake I saw just sitting on the seat of a parked motorcycle. Who knows.

The severe beating of a traffic cone

Oh, the pressure of the first post. Should it be comical, intellectual, political, insightful, meaningful? How about uselessly observational? Out my window, I just saw a giant bulldog take down a traffic cone. He stared at it in a very, "You talkin' to me?" sort of way, then lunged at it and then bit it and thrashed about with it in his teeth for a minute before his owner had to forcibly remove him from the cone and drag him off, as the dog looked back at the cone as if to say, "Yeah, what? You got schooled!" I'm just glad someone finally had the nerve to show those uppity traffic cones who's boss. I wish I had a video camera because it was certainly a YouTube hit in the making, but I'm sure that would be a violation of the dog's rights. Another observation: Someone in my immediate vicinity is cooking some delicious stuffing or something, and it's making me hungry. Anyway, I'm off to a bar to watch football and enjoy this beautiful day. Hopefully these posts will get more interesting, or at least somewhat frequent.