You know you’re living in New York when you go to pay your monthly bills.
There’s rent, electricity, cable, AmEx, Bloomingdales and Jose the coffee-cart man.
One day at 5 a.m., as I was en route to Starbucks, Jose called out to me. “Hey, why you go there, when I’m here?”
I had to explain that, though I really loved his coffee, I rarely have cash at that hour of the morning.
“So, you pay me later, or better, end of the month. I will keep track.” So this is how Jose became a man on a budget—mine.
I had to make him promise—
NO DONUTS, I DON’T CARE IF I’M ON MY KNEES BEGGING.
I loved his response. “You a very strange goil, but I like you.”
Only in New York would a man owning his own business, understand an independent, though strange, goil like me.
Now can I have a donut?
Just put it on my tab. 🙂
SB
Jose has a lot of trust for a New Yorker. Way to go, Goil!
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Remember, I did guard his cart that time when he went to Perco to use their restroom without absconding with one donut. I guess I passed the trust test. 🙂
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He trusts you, and that is marvelous.
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I guess it is when you consider the condition of the world.
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You are a likeable and trustworthy person, Susannah. And the fact that you truthfully explained your predicament and didn’t ask for the credit only increased the desire to make an arrangement that benefited all parties.
Based on so many of your encounters, I’ve been wondering, “Is Mary Tyler Moore of ‘That Girl’ one of your relatives?” Have you ever spun around and thrown your hat up in the air, ha ha?
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Yes, many times…or in the ring, to quote Teddy. So funny Skinny.
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Eat the damn donut goil!
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Don’t you love donuts? Because of how they’re made, in all that deep fried oil, they are the worst thing for you. But boy, are they good.
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One will do ya and make you feel good!
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That’s the problem. Like Lays Potato Chips…just can’t eat one.
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But chips are much smaller so one is really nothing.
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Good point.
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Street vend willpower: only in New York.
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Ya think? You couldn’t get credit at a shepherd’s pie stand, or one that serves cod wrapped in the Daily Mail? England and New York, just an ocean between them. 🙂
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Alas, fish and chips in newspaper is verboten these days, due to H&S concerns. It’s a shame really. It’s the only thing the Daily Mail was ever useful for. 😉
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That’s pretty funny. I thought fish and chips wrapped in the sports page was one of those things you could count on like the changing of the guard, and Tower Hill. Sigh
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Jose is a good businessman! He knows his audience or customers in this case well. As for those donuts, I’m not sure where the coffee cart guys get those beauties, but they are as big a house! YUM!!
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The Jane Russells of donuts. 🙂
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Only in New York would this happen. By the way, it was really difficult for me to find the Follow This Blog link because it’s so tiny. Anyway, good stuff.
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I don’t know what you mean re the link but nice of you to read and write. Appreciate it.
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I love donuts! It was a problem when I worked next door to a Dunkin Donuts. Jose sounds like a nice man…and a smart one.
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And he recycles. I get my bill on a used napkin. 🙂
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LOL 🙂
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I love the JACK story so very much, but again, I can’t even LIKE your post. I tried re-following you with three different emails, all rejected. I wrote to wordpress. It’s upsetting because you’re one of the few blogs I love and follow. Thanks. Again, love Jack’s little litany. So sweet.
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What does WP say? If I need to do something let me know.
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Haven’t heard. Been going in to you via Firefox so I don’t know. The cyber life exhausts me. Shouldn’t be so hard and irritating. Again, loved the Jack piece. So sweet.
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I guess there’s a little small town ethos in New York City after all. 🙂 Sounds like the sort of thing that would happen in my area.
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It all comes down to who you know. 🙂
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