Perhaps it is just me, not able to leave well enough alone. He was standing in the jam-packed subway car with 5 double-bagged Trader Joe’s bags. The gaping bags laid out in plain view what he had purchased: all the trimmings for a holiday dinner. Since we are cheek-by-jowl and I had to look down …
Category Archives: Food
Shopping
As I passed them in the aisle, I heard her ask him, ‘Shall I stand in line for you?’. We were all in Trader Joe’s on Saturday afternoon, which is about as close to organized madness as one will find. The line for the checkout, which is actually a double line, stretches the length of …
More 5th Avenue
One of my favorite sights: the ultra-expensive jewel-box jewelry store with million dollar bling in the plate-glass front window while on the corner outside a hotdog-pretzel-seller at his cart is sending up smoke clouds as he fires up his grill. It costs to walk down 5th Avenue at Christmas. Dollars to the unique percussion performer …