6.12.07
New kid
"Are you new?"A bike messenger who looked a little out of it asked me that the other day, when I stopped by a patisserie on W4th street.
I was pretty sure I knew what he meant, but I couldn't possibly understand his logic, so said, "new?"
Then there was the whole "are you a messenger?" "no I am not" exchange. The guy kept moving away and then towards me when he thought of something else to converse about. The whole exchange was approximately a minute long.
I didn't realise that the bike messenger community in New York had gotten so small that people can just ask you if you are "new". That sounds more like what you say to a kid you've never seen before in your homeroom. I'm not really certain about the homeroom thing, though, because in my school, homeroom was our first period class.
posted by a girl @ 21:58
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