Obviously, when you read my posts you should just skip over any huge grammatical and spelling errors. I type fast and rarely go back and re-read before submitting.
My shed is made of concrete block & glass blocks instead of windows because crime was so rampant in the Slope when I built the shed. It’s a pretty, granite-looking block.
So this weekend I took my kids to the Museum of Natural History with my kids while the Mrs went to a baby shower on the UWS. Worst experience ever. I had a stroller so I had to take the elevators, but for some reason 100% of the Europeans who go to the museum insist on taking the elevator, even if it’s just one floor up or down, even if they’re obviously perfectly capable of walking up and down stairs. And there aren’t enough elevators, so I would have to wait 15 minutes at a time to get on an elevator while asshole 25 year old Italian tourists in tight shirts and wraparound sunglasses pushed in front of me and my kids.
So then I go to pick up my wife, and she’s standing there in front of some restaurant on the UWS talking to some of the women from the baby shower, including some fat faced pasty brit with bad teeth. So I proceed to complain about how the museum was awful because the elevators were totally packed, saying *nothing* at all about the fact that they were all Europeans, and pastyface says to me, I fucking kid you not:
“Oh that’s because Americans are all too lazy to take the stairs.”
SERIOUSLY. What the fuck is it about Europeans that they think it’s socially acceptable to say things like this when they are here? Are basic social skills not taught on that continent?
I said something very mean in response, basically to the effect that no, the only Americans who were on the elevator had strollers or wheelchairs, and it was mostly pasty English football hooligans with bad teeth who seemed incapable of using the stairs.
Jackholes who walk up and down the aisles of the trading floor with their wireless headpiece talking loudly on the phone. Are we supposed to think they’re important?
This city has gone through an amazing transformation over the last 20 years. Record drop in crime, for one. Say what you will, Giuliani, new policing techniques, demographics, but that and easy lending allowed for the transformation of neighborhoods which were really scary places — like Bed Sty. And Fort Greene. And Bushwick, And Brooklyn Heights AND Park Slope etc etc. And in the 70’s you had a good chance of being a victim of subway crime, which took your attention away from the rat hole trains covered in graffitti. Also, cabs didn’t work and taxi drivers regularly committed crimes against their passengers. Dog shit was piled in the streets and in the summer, the city stunk like a giant canine latrine. And if you lived in Staten Island, you paid three fares to get into Manhattan.
English football hooligans LURVE the Museum of Natural History! Not sure why.
Obviously, when you read my posts you should just skip over any huge grammatical and spelling errors. I type fast and rarely go back and re-read before submitting.
My shed is made of concrete block & glass blocks instead of windows because crime was so rampant in the Slope when I built the shed. It’s a pretty, granite-looking block.
It’s a hard-luck life, Lechacal.
So this weekend I took my kids to the Museum of Natural History with my kids while the Mrs went to a baby shower on the UWS. Worst experience ever. I had a stroller so I had to take the elevators, but for some reason 100% of the Europeans who go to the museum insist on taking the elevator, even if it’s just one floor up or down, even if they’re obviously perfectly capable of walking up and down stairs. And there aren’t enough elevators, so I would have to wait 15 minutes at a time to get on an elevator while asshole 25 year old Italian tourists in tight shirts and wraparound sunglasses pushed in front of me and my kids.
So then I go to pick up my wife, and she’s standing there in front of some restaurant on the UWS talking to some of the women from the baby shower, including some fat faced pasty brit with bad teeth. So I proceed to complain about how the museum was awful because the elevators were totally packed, saying *nothing* at all about the fact that they were all Europeans, and pastyface says to me, I fucking kid you not:
“Oh that’s because Americans are all too lazy to take the stairs.”
SERIOUSLY. What the fuck is it about Europeans that they think it’s socially acceptable to say things like this when they are here? Are basic social skills not taught on that continent?
I said something very mean in response, basically to the effect that no, the only Americans who were on the elevator had strollers or wheelchairs, and it was mostly pasty English football hooligans with bad teeth who seemed incapable of using the stairs.
[still fuming]
jackal – why do you hate hu-mans so much?
lech – That’s what I was trying to remember – alcohol. Thx.
I was 36 in 1979.
Too late to play the game?
People who annoy me:
Jackholes who walk up and down the aisles of the trading floor with their wireless headpiece talking loudly on the phone. Are we supposed to think they’re important?
This city has gone through an amazing transformation over the last 20 years. Record drop in crime, for one. Say what you will, Giuliani, new policing techniques, demographics, but that and easy lending allowed for the transformation of neighborhoods which were really scary places — like Bed Sty. And Fort Greene. And Bushwick, And Brooklyn Heights AND Park Slope etc etc. And in the 70’s you had a good chance of being a victim of subway crime, which took your attention away from the rat hole trains covered in graffitti. Also, cabs didn’t work and taxi drivers regularly committed crimes against their passengers. Dog shit was piled in the streets and in the summer, the city stunk like a giant canine latrine. And if you lived in Staten Island, you paid three fares to get into Manhattan.
There was NO security anywhere.