Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]New York, despite that anecdote and despite too its reputation, is not a Darwinian jungle (except perhaps at the upper reaches of society, which in this country and this city translates to the rich, and they're vicious everywhere). Indeed, I have traveled a little, not as much as many of you, but I have never been to any city where strangers are more willing to reach out and help people who are lost or injured or look confused. I moved to New York in 1975 to go to college: it was a very rough place back then and went through other sorts of rough times since. I've seen a shooting, a mugging, and a few dozen occasions of intimidation and meanness, but I will still testify that from 1975 til I finally half an hour north last year, New York remained a shockingly kind place and shockingly generous. (But chairs in parking spaces? This is the major leagues. We don't fool around with that stuff. You see that and you say, yeah, right, and then you pull into the space. Tough but fair. Vince P PS Having just moved to the 'burbs I can also say, want to see a Darwinian jungle check out property values and property taxes by school districting lines. It's like someone sat down and figured out the least fair and hopeful system of "public" education possible for people with little money. On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:26 PM, R. Clayton McKee <leica at rcmckee.com> wrote: > That's largely the difference between living in a society vs. living > in a Darwinian jungle. > > Quoth the Vince Passaro : > > > Oh c'mon. In perennially snow-buried cities such as Montreal this is > > common > > practice and you wouldn't think of taking someone's cleared space. > > Or so > > I've been told. In New York City on the other hand, where I live, if > > you put > > a chair out, the next guy would take your space and, not > > understanding, pop > > the chair in his trunk to sell later. > > > > Vince P > > > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:13 PM, <rclark01 at comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Saw the same thing all over Lancaster this weekend. Digging your > > car out > > > gives you the right to access and operate your car. It doesn't > > give you the > > > right to reserve the vacated public space for a point in the > > future when you > > > want to occupy it again! > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Jim Shulman" <jshul at comcast.net> > > > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > > > Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 9:42:31 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada > > Eastern > > > Subject: [Leica] PESO: Reservations Requested > > > > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/reservations+requested+sm.j > > pg.html > > > > > > > > > > > > Leica M3, Elmar 50/3.5 red scale, Tmax 400 > > > > > > > > > > > > The elusive parking space on my street, claimed by its > > excavator. > > > > > > > > > > > > Jim Shulman > > > > > > Wynnewood, PA > > > > > > Who's had about enough with this ^%$#@! winter > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > > information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > > information > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > > information > > -- > > > R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com > Photojournalist rcmckee at rcmckee.com > P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 > Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request > >