Unexpected Things Occasionally Encountered in New York City That Make Me Happy
Written by David on February 16th, 2009- Someone playing a dobro in a subway station when no trains are coming and it is otherwise very quiet.
- A clean person sitting next to you on the subway (shoulders touching) falls asleep.
- A beautiful girl smiling gently and sincerely.
- Suddenly realizing that a cat, enjoying the sunshine while sitting in a window, is watching you walk by.
- When it feels as if the entire city is in the park (whichever one you happen to be in).
- A street bookseller having exactly the book you’ve been looking for and happily making the sale.
- Realizing that most of the people around you in the subway car are reading fiction.
- A moment of transformative solitude at the water’s edge.
- A couple of teenagers canoodling like they mean it on the subway.
- An everything bagel just minutes out of the oven.
- A buyback (in a bar, not the stock market).
- Woody Allen.
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What about:
> a hot slice of fatty pastrami being handed to you by the Russian guy behind the counter at Katz’s?
> a street vendor having just the kind of donut you want on your way into work?
> a warm breeze slightly lifting the hem of a pretty lady’s skirt so you can see a bit above the knee (as long as it’s smooth, slightly tanned, and has some muscle tone)?
> feeling a strong breeze from the harbor whip your face as you stand at the Battery watching the sunset behind Lady Liberty?
> sitting in the gardens at the UN and having lunch with a friend?
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I don’t do pastrami no more and Katz’s is maybe going away anyway right?
The rest sound good, though I confess I’ve never had lunch at the UN, with a friend or an enemy.
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Finding yourself in a new neighborhood even when you’ve lived in the city for 10 years.
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Don’t forget just sitting around in famous places and watching tourists act like goofballs. One of my favorite passtimes.