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Not Exactly a Holiday Card – Some (Also Not Exactly Pet) Peeves In NYC Pre-Thanksgiving

November 21, 2011

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  1.  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.)
  2. 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.)
  3.  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?