So There!

While New York may pride itself on doing everything better, it's not quite true. Most things are done better (love that public transportation is $2.00; Denver's at $4.00 and will be raising it again), but in two very important places, New York is lacking:

1. Coffee Shops; they don't exist in New York. You may run into one every 75 blocks or so, but the caramel lattes are seriously sad. I don't count Starbucks...though they do happen every 15 or so blocks. Which brings up the question, what exactly does power New Yorkers and that brings up number

2. New Yorkers are whimps. Yes, they have crime and yes, Central Park at night is reputed to be scary ("because the park is a forest and forests are scary at night"), but you get a wee little bit of misty rain and out come the umbrellas and galoshes.

I didn't even know galoshes existed any more, but there is a whole booming galosh business. While I did only live in Portland for a year or so, there I picked up on the unspoken super-soggy universal rule that only whimps use umbrellas. The only exception is when it's literally pouring buckets and even then, the annoyingness of dealing with an umbrella vs. getting a little wet is still a debate.

One day was spent wandering the misty, slightly damp streets looking for coffee. The whole time other people were smacking their umbrellas into each other, signs, buildings, cabs, sidewalks, and just about everything. It was wierd. Overall, though, New York does just about everything else better. It's unfortunate, really, because I can only be smug about coffee and rain: the two things the west coast does best.

An Erinku:
orange kitty
napping on
green suitcase
holding it at home