Love the City

Things that exist in New York that I love:

The city literally at your doorstep

An abundance of non-chain or mom & pop restaurants

Botrytised dessert wine

Things that do not exist in New York:

An abundance of patient, friendly people

Thrifty's ice cream

Those grade placards at restaurants that tell you how clean the establishment is

Weird looking bugs (a real plus)

(Coworker rant: "You've got a lot of weird, scary looking bugs flying around in Cali. There are bugs literally half the size of my hand (my thought bubble: images of cockroaches running around outside Sharkey's in Manhattan Beach). What you need is a real, cold winter to kill those things. That mild weather of yours allows too much breeding which leads to mutations, giving you those scary looking things running around.")


Things that I've concluded do not exist in New York:

Food handling gloves

Rigid gas permeable enzymatic lens cleaners (Rite Aid worker: "...the [expletive]. If we have it, it would be in this section." (Actually found these in CVS after searching every major drug store in the city. So, I guess this doesn't really belong here.))

Red vines

Things that exist in New York that I wish didn't:

Supermarkets that charge Bristol Farms prices in return for Food For Less Quality (that pretty much covers all of them)

Crappy AC units that drip on your head as you unknowingly walk under them on the street