***I just transferred this from an old blog as I am updating the site . Enjoy.
10 reasons why I love New York:
1.) Homeless men have Ipods. True Story
2.) A 10 X 10 apartment being listed as a “size-able” room and easily going for $1400/month/
3.) The restaurant industry here is so desperate to compete since there are 239847293847389478934 of them on any given block that you will find that dining is less about eating these days and more about ninjas and their dueling sword fights, clown tightropists balancing on wires above your head while you eat chicken parm, and your waiters being dressed as martians.
4.) Only here can you get fat-free/sugar-free/calorie-free/lactose-free/carb-free/yogurt-free frozen yogurt and happily accept it as ice cream.
5.) When it gets nice outside, the entire city immediately throws on their bathing suits and heads to a giant chunk of grassy land as if there were actual water anywhere in sight.
6.) You can overhear people on their cell phones as they walk around the city saying things like, “No…I swear….he shoved a giant hot dog up there! I know….kinky, right?” (again, I could not make these things up if I tried.)
7.) Dating someone on the East side is considered a long distance relationship.
8.) Sitting on a train any given day of the week you can expect to see a mariachi band, a homeless person who has shat/pissed themselves holding a .40 in a brown paper and asking (well, what I think was asking since their words were quite slurred) for money to feed their “shungryy chillllldfren”, An old Asian woman selling used dreidels, broken yo-yo’s, a pink hammer, and a pack of Double A batteries. A man with no teeth singing opera, and a fat woman with halitosis who has tourettes. And these things are all considered quite normal.
9.) If you stop at any corner and look around you will spot at least 7 Starbucks…..And waiting for a double tall skim half-calf sugar/free dulche de leche macciato blended cream frappacino for more than 2 minutes is HIGHLY unacceptable.
10.) Summer in the city boasts a blend of some of the world’s most interesting smells. Among them; Hot horse poop, rotting pee on asphalt, warm garbage, roasting sugar-coated peanuts, and bubbling doggy doo doo from owners who think picking up their dog’s shit is optional. mmmmmm
