New York Values

Having worked in downtown Manhattan for four years in the late 1970s no doubt some of New York rubbed off on me. But ya gotta keep your sense of humor.

Last week there was an obit for Stanley Siegel who had a radio show in New York circa 1970s. He was once quoted "It's so much better to be a neurotic in New York than in Nashville. There they liked me but they didn't understand me. Here they like me and understand me." It's those values!

Then there was that earlier visitor, Nikita S. Khrushchev reflecting on his visits to the city: "There is no greenery. It is enough to make a stone sad." Someone should have taken him to Central Park - after he put his shoes back on.
tjs