Closing Bell: On Leaving Park Slope
“I am leaving Park Slope because I am increasingly impatient with people too socially deficient to act like good neighbors. People who won’t spare five seconds to help an old lady. People who can’t figure out their way around without checking their iPhones. People who don’t say hi to the neighbors with whom they share…
“I am leaving Park Slope because I am increasingly impatient with people too socially deficient to act like good neighbors. People who won’t spare five seconds to help an old lady. People who can’t figure out their way around without checking their iPhones. People who don’t say hi to the neighbors with whom they share a stoop. These things are getting noticeably worse.” This is the nut of a post by longtime Park Sloper Daryl Lang who’s leaving the borough and moving to Manhattan. The essay covers everything from the Park Slope Food Co-Op to pretentious parenting and “fidgety and skittish” fathers. His final diagnosis? “Park Slope’s reputation as a welcoming place went viral, and brought in new residents who made it a warped exaggeration of itself.” Agree?
On Leaving Brooklyn [History Eraser Button]
don’t most young white people go grocery shopping while stoned anyways? if i saw an old woman struggling to reach stuff in a grocery store i’d probably be terrified of asking her if she needed help because of the awkward social interact that would likely occur.
“should have put this up in the morning. Would have gotten many many posts.”
Agreed, possibly more than the PS Coop threads! LOL!
“That guy was Zach Galifianakis.”
Zach was still crashing with his Gf in billyburg last time I saw him.
Snappy — I’d say 15 years (but that’s only because I am just shy of that mark myself) but ask me in three years and I will probably say 20.
http://daryllang.com/blog/4013#more-4013
DUDE HAD BEDBUGS!!!!!!!
Don’t let him in, Manhattan!!!
haha IMBY!!!
If the guy calls 21st Park Slope then someone can probably rent him a place in South Bronx and he’ll think he is in Manhattan.
Oh and he accepts no comments on his blog.
Woah….I WONDER WHY!!!
and who the hell WANTS nosey neighbors? personally those little old ladies who say hi? i dont trust them. they dont need to be all up in your business. if you want that, move to the Dakota.
*rob*