Archive for June 22nd, 2007
Six More Reasons I Hate New York City
436. I know not having a front license plate is illegal in New York State. However, it’s one of those things that, I thought, you really only got a ticket for if a cop pulled you over, didn’t find anything wrong, and just decided he felt like writing a ticket that day. Upstate, I’ve gone through seat belt checks where it wasn’t even mentioned (One time it was, the officer asked me where the plate was, and I told him truthfully it was in my trunk because the front of the car looks better with the Grand Am attachment over the well the plate goes in). Two days ago, I got a letter in the mail from the New York City Department of Finance. In the letter, I was informed that my parked car was written a $75 ticket for not having a front license plate. Some member of the NYPD took the time to write my parked car a ticket. Thanks, assholes.
437. Yankee fans. When the Yankees were dropping 10 games in a row, it was a slump. When the Mets are going through a rough stretch, the ship is sinking.
438. New Yorkers who claim to “miss the grit” from 1980s New York who are either younger than 25 or who moved to the state last year. These people fascinate me for two reasons. First, they are essentially saying they’d prefer to live in the city when getting on the subway each day was an exercise in survival. Second, they never would have fucking moved here if the city wasn’t made fancy by Giuliani, who they now, of course, fashionably hate.
439. People who move to a neighborhood where something’s been for 100 years, then decide they don’t like it and try to have it canceled. Case point: the San Gennaro festival. It’s a festival that’s been thrown in Little Italy since 1926. Within recent years, newer residents of Little Italy has complained about the noise and trash generated by the festival. Because, you know, it hadn’t been going on there before they moved there.
440. Blogs. Ironic, I know, but there are way too many blogs about New York. Every idiot with an internet connection has a blog and they all essentially say the same thing. Most of it revolves around “government sucks.” Well, except for anti-smoking laws, and cigarette taxes, and and DWI roadblocks… those are all ok. And the trans-fat ban, that’s needed, too.
New York might be the most fake progressive city on the face of the planet. They swear up and down that they don’t want government in their lives, yet demand every nuisance be regulated.
441. The Knicks. I mean, seriously. Isiah Thomas has now officially cost the Knicks LeBron, Wade, Melo, Iverson, KG, and Kobe.