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30 New Yorkers Share The Most Wholesome, Weird, And Disturbing Experiences That Happened To Them In New York
New York City is crazy. But I guess it would be unreasonable to put over 8 million people in one place and expect things to just be normal like in a quiet little suburb.
However, there's no one way to describe the way living there feels. So a few days ago, Dan Saltzstein made a tweet, asking all the locals to share their personal experiences that perfectly encapsulate the City that Never Sleeps. And they were happy to oblige.
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From riding the subway to visiting the Bronx Zoo, pretty soon Dan's single tweet evolved into a massive thread with one story funnier than the next.
I don't know if spending your days in New York City is easy, but it definitely sounds thrilling.
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Scout Finch 4 years ago
Awesome!! My favorite show and favorite actor!! They should have kept you in the scene. Made it more realistic.
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Summer Mason 4 years ago
*Stares at my cat*.... um.... how does one walk a cat? What witchery is this?
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Lorrie Rothstein 4 years ago
Samuel Jackson should have been on the train. I don't want any m**********r snakes on this train
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Poultry Geist 4 years ago
I love stores that play fun music ! I love to sing and dance going down the isles. My children hate this about me tho 😂I don’t know why
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kaycee14 4 years ago
Yes! I walked from 5th Ave. and 17th St. in Manhattan, over the 59th St. bridge into Queens, then up to the far edge of Astoria, in my office skirt and (thankfully low heeled) dress shoes. Churches set up rest stations with water and snacks, bodegas were handing out flip-flops to women whose high heels were killing them. I was hurrying because I thought things would go to he!! after dark, but instead of looting there were block parties, with people grilling up the contents of their refrigerators before the meat went bad. It was amazing!
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Kar Red Roses 4 years ago (edited)
Awww I love that! They weren’t hitting on ya either they were just a real film fan
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Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago (edited)
I saw the same guy i went to college with 3 times coincidentally in 3 completely different places in 1 day. The A train, Red Lion and CBGBs.
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Carol Culhane 4 years ago
They were likely English or lived there for a while. This is common practise there and you're considered a jerk if you don't do this and are able bodied.
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Lindsey Judd-Bruder 4 years ago
My husband is a Jew who MARRIED a shiksa (me, lol, though he's never used that term toward me, in a derogatory way; it's more an affectionate running joke). Of course, I have no intention of betraying him, like Delilah did Samson. But still... Should I be worried for him? Hmm... 🤔😂
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smugdruggler 4 years ago
Does anyone understand this? I have no clue what they're trying to say.
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Christina B 4 years ago (edited)
Have you SEEN Ellen Barkin in Animal House (Netflix) !!! She is what I strive and want to be when I finally grow up - that woman is just sheer talent, gorgeousness and absolute badassery
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BabaBizzle 4 years ago
I hope he suffers from the worst form of cancer for what he did to you. And he is mugged unable to fight back from his frail self. People are s**t. Also glad you’re here to tell the story mate! Cancer is a c**t.
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Insert Generic Username 4 years ago (edited)
I fell in love with Maya Angelou in high school. My 10th grade English teacher gave me a copy of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings to read in my spare time (reading was and still is one of my hobbies) because she couldn't put it in her curriculum due to the book being banned by my high school for having a rape scene in it.
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Insert Generic Username 4 years ago
Mean thing to say to your teen, unless they have a loving but super sarcastic relationship like my 17 year old and I do.
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aubergine10003 4 years ago
Just here to say: "once slice of cheese" is a perfectly normal way to order a slice in NYC. #nativeNYer
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Stephanie A Mutti 4 years ago
Tina Fey strikes me as the kind of person who shows up on time to things if not a tad early.
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Insert Generic Username 4 years ago
Here in Everett, WA it's not uncommon to see nude people just casually walking about. My mom and son saw a totally naked dude cross the street downtown and my brother saw a fully nude, twerking lady by the Home Depot bus stop. What a special city 😂😂😂
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Cold Contagious 4 years ago
The Thriller video was absolutely spectacular when it first came out, still is a amazing phenomenon from the past. To have had a cult experience like that at the premiere sounds insanely fun.
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Insert Generic Username 4 years ago
"What's the soup du jour?" "It's the soup of the day." "That sounds good, I'll have that." -Dumb and Dumber
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Cold Contagious 4 years ago
It was very good of him to play bumper guard until drunky got by them.
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Diane Aguilar 4 years ago
Well, I hate Patti Smith so there's that. FYI, if you want to know why I hate Patti Smith and why she's the perfect example of the "cool girl"/"I'm not like other girls" type of woman we should all be against, read the book Love Goes to Buildings on Fire, which is about the various seminal music scenes going on in NYC in the 1970s. Let's just say Joni Mitchell isn't the only super-talented woman in music Patti Smith has been awful toward. Oh, and the 10,000 Maniacs cover of "Because the Night" is much, much better than the original as well.
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M O'Connell 4 years ago
In case you hate a story that leaves out key details: The film is "Regarding Henry" (1991) and OP was cast as Rachel Turner
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Cold Contagious 4 years ago
Didn't go as hoped, but those replies may have made for interesting reading,maybe more, depending on how big a fan he was of the book.
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LH25 4 years ago
Mom and I were visiting New York in 2009. We stopped on a corner to look at the map to see how to get where we were going. One person walking by stopped to help us, then another. Then a guy out for a jog. We ended up with 4 New Yorkers discussing (rather loudly) how best to get us to our destination. Finally, one said "just follow me" and took us there.
Eds 4 years ago
Same thing happened to us in the NYC subway the first time we were there with both kids an infant and a 6 year old.
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K Witmer 4 years ago
Leaving port authority and a guy pulled his pants down to inspect his penis saying he just shagged a prostitute for 10$
kaycee14 4 years ago
My first Christmas in NYC, I bought a small Christmas tree in Union Square, they wrapped it in the netting, and then I took it on the subway back home to Astoria. Just standing in a packed rush hour subway car with my 4ft (1.2 meter) tree. Nobody paid any attention. Except as one guy got ready to leave the train, he commented that it was the best smelling subway ride he'd ever had.
LH25 4 years ago
Mom and I were visiting New York in 2009. We stopped on a corner to look at the map to see how to get where we were going. One person walking by stopped to help us, then another. Then a guy out for a jog. We ended up with 4 New Yorkers discussing (rather loudly) how best to get us to our destination. Finally, one said "just follow me" and took us there.
Eds 4 years ago
Same thing happened to us in the NYC subway the first time we were there with both kids an infant and a 6 year old.
Load More Replies... K Witmer 4 years ago
Leaving port authority and a guy pulled his pants down to inspect his penis saying he just shagged a prostitute for 10$
kaycee14 4 years ago
My first Christmas in NYC, I bought a small Christmas tree in Union Square, they wrapped it in the netting, and then I took it on the subway back home to Astoria. Just standing in a packed rush hour subway car with my 4ft (1.2 meter) tree. Nobody paid any attention. Except as one guy got ready to leave the train, he commented that it was the best smelling subway ride he'd ever had.
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