Posted on 04/19/2010 7:18:22 PM PDT by 10Ring
YeeeeHawwww!!!!!
Eloi.
Anyway, I have nostalgic feelings about chinese food menus being slipped under your door. I used to like chinese food a lot and in Manhattan, you can eat at a different chinese food restaurant every night for a solid year before you have to start the cycle again - and by then, most of the restaurants are now under "new management" with revamped menus so it's like going to a whole new restaurant.
Egg rolls are very fattening but they are good, especially in Manhattan.
That’s back when they had gas stations, not mini marts with gas pumps. If you broke down, they could help you.
It has been nearly two decades since New Yorkers faced their last doorman strike, but as the deadline for a new contract for building workers approached, the questions being posed throughout the city remained largely unchanged on Sunday.
Who will safeguard my apartment as I sleep?
The policeman. You pay your taxes. His motto once upon a time was "to protect and serve". He spends his days writing revenue tickets. Get him off that beat and he won't spend so much time in court defending his tickets.
Greet my children when they come home from school?
Mom. Mother. Mommy. She doesn't need to be out shopping. If NYC is too expensive to make it on one income, move someplace more affordable.
Accept deliveries?
The wife. The missus. Or perhaps the house husband.
Clean the hallways?
Janitor. Building and groundskeeper.
Sort the mail?
Mailman. You pay for mail service when you put a stamp on an envelope or package. You deserve the services you paid for, not 90% of the job for 100% of the cost.
Operate the elevator?
Push. Gee, that was hard.
And who, for goodness sake, will let the cleaning lady in?
Why is it I always hear liberals telling about how well they treated their black or hispanic housekeeper? I've lived for many decades and never grew up in a home with paid help.
In Eastern Europe the attendant sits outside of the immediate stall/urinal area (you get some privacy). Often it is an older unhappy woman. You can buy toilet paper squares from her before you enter the bathroom (and tip) or bring your own.
I think she's there as much to stand guard against vandalism and drug users as she is to draw income.
When I lived in Boston in the 1980s, there was no "self-serve" at the gas stations. Full service ONLY.
Yoko Ono's life. John was pushed. < /sarc >
So right. I live in suburbs, about 80,000 population. Only ONE full service station in the entire area and they don’t have the technology to work on any of the newer cars. Ridiculous.
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