Friday, March 31, 2006

If you wait on the corner of Lafayette and Clinton, the whole world will walk by you.

As we walked home from church on Sunday, Kitty and I saw the most amazingly convenient service that New York City has ever offered to us: Bob's Tool Service. If I haven't mentioned it before, let me reiterate: If there is a way to make a buck, it's already been dreamed up in this city. Now back to the van:

This large green van has a generator in it and window. Parked on the corner like the grown-up equivalent of Mr. Softee, adults look out the window, clap their hands, grab all their kitchen knives and their wallet and line up to have Bob the Sharpener get all of their knives sharp enough to cut paper!

Would it work anywhere else on this earth? Maybe not. Allow me to offer a corollary to my earlier point: If there is a way to spend a buck, it's already been dreamed up in this city.