random things ... heard on the subway/subway & sidewalk sightings

Seen In The Past Few Weeks At The Bryant Park Subway Station:

* A little boy, who was merrily peeing against a wall inside of the station while his parents held his pants down around his ankles.

* An old Chinese woman, performing Christmas carols on traditional Chinese instruments ... which were still tuned in a non-Western scale. 'Silent Night' never sounded so unsettling.

* The old man who's always performing classical violin on the downtown platform. I never give him any money (I never have any), but I always wonder if he actually ever gets any students from his homemade sign that states 'I TEACH VIOLIN LESSONS!'

* A wheelchair bound beggar who became increasingly belligerent when no one gave him any spare change. I almost stuck around to see if he was going to start running people over.

* That guy always shilling his group's rap CD ("We do NOT degrade women!) and promotional materials for 1 dollar on the F train. "Best deal in the ci-tay. 8 songs for 1 dollar." Seriously. He's there almost everyday, and I've literally seen about 3 people purchase a CD from him.

* A pigeon flying around the uptown platform. Hello? You're a bird. Go back outside.

Seen In The Past Few Weeks On Various Sidewalks Around My Neighborhood:

* An old refrigerator

* A king sized mattress

* Baby pacifier (That struck me as sad, for some reason.)

* Books -- thanks to whoever provided me with a copy of the MLA Guide to Research Papers. Woohoo.

* Shoes

* A lamp and lampshade

Heard On The Subway:

* Conversation between a little girl and her father:
Little Girl: (looking at the drag queens standing near her) "Daddy, why are those boys dressed up like girls?"
Father: "Well, honey, sometimes men like to dress up like women ... "

* Street preacher to everyone in the same subway car:
"Men must stop lusting after women's butts. Jesus does not want men to look at women's butts. MEN MUST STOP WANTING WOMEN'S BUTTS." (etc etc ... I almost asked him if 'behind' or 'rear' would have been a better word choice than butts for a holy man, but whatever.)