If you see something.
So it dawned on me this afternoon that the MTA's "If you see something, say something" campaign is doomed to fail. Whereas it might work in DeMoines, Iowa, it doesn't stand a chance with jaded New Yorkers. What is strange to the rest of the country and sometimes, the world, is quite normal to us Big Apple folk. I realized this as I watched a man in full Rennaisance gear get on the 1 train and start playing a lute. No-one batted an eyelid. That's not strange enough for us. We can explain that away with at least a thousand possibilities that are perfectly plausible in NYC. The same goes for a man wearing a full space suit. People would think that he is an extra to a movie before they thought bio warfare! The wide range of odd stuff that happens in this city makes it even more dangerous. Which one of the myriad of strange and weird things that we see daily SHOULD we alert the authorities to!?!?
Well I actually have a list of things that NYers find strange but none of use will ever report:
It's strange is people get on a train and actually move to the center of the car so that others can get on.
It's strange if the people standing at the door actually get out of the way to let people IN in the train as opposed to standing there like they paid rent for that spot.
It's very strange if our fellow strap hangers take their massive knapsacks OFF their backs instead of taking up valuable standing space with inanimate objects that are in direct proportion to how rude the owner is.
Now THOSE are strange occurrences that I would love to report!
1 comment:
i agree. you nuyawkers are completely oblivious to things that the rest of us would gawk at. which i guess is why we like visiting ny: to gawk.
i need to make a return visit soon.
-rj
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