Today I had some time to wander around midtown Manhattan with a few million friends. I do not like crowds and usually would just push my way through and try to get away from people but today, I had a mission for the blog. Forget people watching, everyone was so close by, I could just go right in for people listening. (Your welcome) Wow, it is really easy to eavesdrop on 5th Avenue. I heard so many gems that I had to stop and text myself so I could remember them all.
"There's the plaza hotel (true). You know it looks like the capital building?" (????)
Looking at Cardier building "I bet this looks cool at night." (correct)
Pregnant woman sitting on the ground next to her standing family. "Do I look like a homeless person because someone just offered me a dollar?" (Well, then the answer is yes, you do-PS please wash those pants).
While a thousand people crossed when we weren't supposed to (you can't prove I was one of them) "It's ok to cross because that bus is blocking the interesection." Car: HONK!!!! OK, I agree but thanks for rationalizing it. By the way, the whole way people cross the street here took me years to unlearn. When I j-walked in Washington DC I got yelled at by a cop and when I do it in Florida, people tell me stories about people being killed j-walking. I haven't completely unlearned it because I got told this last month.
Some random person "Are you STILL complaining?" haha, having a nice vacation?
"Next time I come here, we come at 6:30 in the morning!" I hope others will follow her lead so that there will be less people there at midday.
"Aint nobody got time for that....oooh bling!!!!" Human equivalent of the Up dog and "squirrel!" I have no idea why she was saying that first part though but I would really like to know.
On the crowded 6 train: Two guys talking about how many people there are here and in China. "You know it is like this all the time in China. They got millions of people there. They all gotta walk like this (picture waddling like a penguin, while standing in place on a subway). Shit!" hahaha, I just had to laugh out loud for that one, even if it is against the rules to look like you are looking or listening to anybody, once you bring in penguin waddling, it's fair game.
By the way, even though I wrote about people watching and people listening, please do not expect any of the rest of the 5 senses. I try very hard not to smell, touch or taste strangers, even for the blog!
Watching and listening to people is fascinating. Human behavior reveals much more than we care to hear or see sometimes while we watch and listen. But, I think that smelling, touching or tasting would reveal even far more than I would care to know, perhaps. So, I very much agree with your closing argument.
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