Not Exactly a Holiday Card – Some (Also Not Exactly Pet) Peeves In NYC Pre-Thanksgiving
- Since when did the twelve days of Christmas begin mid-November?
(Make that the beginning of November, if you taking NYC store windows into account.) - Since when did “Black” describe any weekday that did not bring the crash of world financial markets?Hey, is there some dark connection? Between the frenzied buying of supposed discounts and the collapse of world markets? (Yes, I know consumerism is supposed to be good for the economy, but I’m thinking long-term here.)
- Reader Alert: yuck ahead. Since when did rats take over night time NYC? Sure, they’ve always lurked, but lately it has been almost impossible to go at night without having one’s path crossed.I hate rats. It may be a mother thing. It may also be a slither thing. An up-you-leg-thing. A slimy-tail-thing. A horrible-little-squirmy-claw=big-decisive-teeth thing.
BLOOMBERG==Forget about Occupy Wall Street. What are you going to do about the rats?
And if you do nothing, how are we going to (a) walk around looking at Christmas lights, (b) doing midnight shopping?
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ManicDDaily 
November 21, 2011 at 9:13 am
I’m with you on the first one.
Don’t understand the second.
And have no knowledge of N.Y.C.
November 21, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Yes, well, NYC has its good and bad, and probably people think of it as always being infested, but it’s really gotten worse in terms of this rodent infestation, at least in my neighborhood, which used to be okay in that sense as it is not very commercial.
November 21, 2011 at 12:23 pm
yikes on the rats…errr i missed those when i was there in March…and i hear you on christmas starting early…it seemed earlier than mid november here…
November 21, 2011 at 1:03 pm
Yes, Christmas definitely started as soon as Halloween over. I don’t remember the rats being a problem in March. It’s only really been the last couple of weeks that I’ve noticed it. I don’t know–maybe overly warm weather?