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“…that even the crabs headed back home.”
The front lawn of the public library in Deshaies, Guadeloupe
“It Was So Hot That…”
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All That Glitters
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West 38th Street
New York, New York
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The Road Not Taken
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38th Street and Broadway
New York, New York
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In The Mirror
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Meant to be viewed in the rear-view mirror…
Avenue P
Brooklyn, New York
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Brief Window Of Opportunity
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East 13th Street
New York, New York
(The message is actually printed on the window, not added to the photo.)
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Yikes!
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East 18th Street
Brooklyn, New York
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Rising Expectations
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Rome, Italy
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“Canned Heat”
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Bashford Street,
Yonkers, New York
Australian spray paint artist Damien Mitchell
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Organic
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Union Square,
New York, New York
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Head Start
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Florence, Italy
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Human Resources
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New York State Office of Human Resources
Schermerhorn Street
Brooklyn, New York
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Subway Blues
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The Q line subway
Brooklyn, New York
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Who Will Watch The Watchers?
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Park Slope
Brooklyn, New York
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Yes…We Deliver
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Broadway near Union Square
New York, New York
(If you enlarge the photo, you’ll be able to see what it says in the yellow triangle near the door)
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People Of Color
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Union Square subway station
New York, New York
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…And No Swine In My Tines
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Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, New York
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Wake Up Call
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Deshaies, Guadeloupe
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Shiny Objects, Out Of Reach
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Madison Square Park
New York, New York
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The Scorpion And The Tortoise
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81st Street Subway station
New York, New York
Everyone’s favorite conman, Whit “Pop” Haydn, is fond of the tale of “The Scorpion and The Tortoise.” As time goes on, I have become more and more appreciative of this little instructive fable. It goes like this…
A scorpion asks a tortoise if he could take a ride on the tortoise’s back in order to cross the deep waters of the local river. The tortoise replies that he’s no fool—the scorpion will just sting him as they go across the river. But the scorpion answers, “No, no worries, you’re protected; for if I went and stung you, you’d die, and then I’d drown in the middle of the river. It’s simple logic, you’ve got a fail-safe situation here.”
The tortoise thinks it over for a few minutes and then agrees. The scorpion hops on the tortoise’s back and off they go. In the exact center of the river, however, at its deepest part, sure enough, the scorpion stings the tortoise. The tortoise, in agonized death throes, sputters out, “What in God’s name have you done? We’re both going to die now! How could you?”
And the scorpion, now about to be enveloped in the deadly deep water, just manages to eke out, “I’m a scorpion. It’s my nature.”
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“You’ll Pay For This”
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Broadway, near Wall Street
New York, New York
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Wallflower
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Artist: Eduardo Tercero
Garfield Place
Brooklyn, New York
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Work Day
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West 32nd Street
New York, New York
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Windows Of Your Mind
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Madison Avenue
New York City, New York
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The Nosy New Yorker
Photo by Ana Paula Nardini on Pexels.com
I have always been an eager surreptitious listener to strangers’ conversations, curious about what other people have to say, and their manner of communication with each other. But nowadays I do not have to strain— on the New York City subways, for example, people no longer have a sense of appropriateness, and they’re as public and loud with their private conversations as a Twitter feed. It’s like the town square. Here are a few snippets that I overheard—or rather that were broadcast—on the subway last week. Each could be a story starter.
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Man to another man: “Just because you look stupid doesn’t mean you have to act stupid.”
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Woman to another woman: “New Year’s with my parents will be sweet, it just won’t be any fun.”
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High school girl to another high school girl: “Every text, make it funny, so that he’ll take you serious; laugh at everything he says. He’ll like that. Just write “Ha-ha.”
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Man to woman: “I wonder if I just need to be less sugar-coated.”
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Woman to man: “Every time my boss gives a presentation, he looks at me. I want to tell him on a scale of one to ten, it’s a two.”
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Woman to another woman: “What was so important that he didn’t text me at all for five hours?”
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Glorious Cacophony
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Lexington Avenue
New York, New York
