Catwalk

So I'm walking down the street one day with a few of my friends, two girls and three guys. It's out in the city, a beautiful day, so very scenic. After passing a building with a very interesting comic blown up to large sizes...

...my friends and I start to do something we picked up as a trend lately. There's an episode of Family Guy where Peter is selling buttscratchers, and he keeps yelling "ButtscratchER" over and over. So we yell it one at a time up the street. My friends yell it, and I yell it, and I hear something over to my right. Naturally, I look to see where the noise came from, and what it said.

Whoops.

The man who said "You don't talk to a lady like that!" to me immediately stood up as I made eye contact with him and began to follow me, for an entire block. Yes, a block of this man screaming at me for my "rude" words. But, this man decided that he would explain to me what I did wrong. You see, when I am "on the catwalk", I shouldn't be "talkin' and walkin' like that". Screaming at me, berating me, my friends slowly shied away from him as I walked without making eye contact. "THE CATWALK IS A NICE PLACE YOU DON'T DO THAT ON THE CATWALK IT'S NOT THE PLACE FOR YOU TALKIN' AND WALKIN' TO A LADY LIKE THAT YOU BETTER LEARN SOME 'SPECT BEFORE YOU GO OUT ON THE CATWALK LIKE THAT".

Then he turned around quietly and walked back to where he was before.

BUTTSCRATCHER!

HEY

Thanks for that Phil. So yeah, we're freshmen at NYU and thought it would be quite hilarious if we documented the crazy things that come from the mouths of the homeless. After all, these people are an integral part of the city and they deserve to be heard. So to start off, I'll post a couple of whimsical things I've heard after having spent only a month here in the city.

"Why you have to dress like it's Thanksgiving?"

The next quote needs a background story. I was walking to our NYU gym in shorts and I passed a homeless shady looking fellow who said, in the cheeriest and most sincere voice ever, "Summertime legs." This made my day and I must've looked like a fool walking to the gym because I had a huge grin on my face.

Now, a little bit more about the authors of this blog:

Phil wanted me to take a stab at introducing him so here I go. He's a magician, a pianist, and a fencer. He really likes Mario kart and doesn't know what he's majoring in yet. He's from upstate New York. I'm majoring in neural science with a minor in studio art and I am obsessed with running. I'm from Dallas, Texas and my high school was number one in football for some time. Now that I have spewed all these useless details about our lives, feel free to comment, like Phil said, and/or send us emails about any crazy tidbits you hear while walking through streets. Even if you don't live in New York City but hear something hilarious and worth blogging about, let us know. We need all the laughs we can get.

Introduction

Hey! I'm Phil, and I'm going to be starting this blog along with Khiara about the interesting things people have to say to us while we walk the streets of New York City. We're both new students at NYU, and we'll be trying to update the blog relatively frequently for you guys to know what's going on in our lives (because you totally care).

If you ever have a submission, please feel free to leave a comment or send us an email with a description of what happened to you, and we may put it on the site.

In any case, we'll start uploading soon (probably will do so tonight), so let us know what you think!

Phil

P.S. Khiara is too lazy to introduce herself. She'll do it eventually. The lazy bum.