Believe me, if you EVER get the opportunity to go there...don't! <g> Most Americans tend to blame it on the dense population but having talked to people about other places in the world where people are packed in even tighter and don't even have the services New Yorkers have, I don't believe it. I think it has something to do with the economy there. It's on a whole different level than the rest of the US, and the need for cash to even get a table at a coffee house makes people competitive and jealous of each other to the extreme. For example you can't park a car there for less than 80 dollars a day now and that doesn't buy you protection...just a space! I'll never forget that on my wedding night my wife and I stayed at a very expensive hotel there and because I had a truck with a high camper I couldn't park in the underground garages. So I finally found a space that actually allowed you to park on the street across from the hotel after waiting 4 hours, and paid the captain a hundred dollars to watch it for me. Then at 4:00 am I get called and told I have to get out of bed and move my truck because the street sweepers were on the way and they were towing everything on that side of the street! I found out later that the captain knew about this as it was a regular event but he took my money anyway. And my poor wife must have thought I left her because it was nearly five hours later before I was able to find another place to park 18 blocks away and finally get back to her!
from Robert Meek dba Tangentals Design CCopyright 2006 Proud to be a moderator of "The Delphi Lists" at elists.org (["An unused program is the consequence of a higher logic!", nil]) As written in The Compendium of Accepted Robotic and Surrlogic Theorems Used in the Self Analysis of Elemental Positronic Pathways...1st Edition Revised -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Swart Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:10 AM To: Delphi-Talk Discussion List Subject: Re: We should all be thankful! Hi Robert, > Have you been to New York lately? I mean downtown? I'm from The Netherlands, and I've never been to New York I'm afraid. I mainly know if from television (the events of 9/11 being the ones that come to mind most often when I think of New York). 42nd Street has no meaning to me, I'm afraid... > The people living and working in Manhattan are losing it big > time, and even the rudeness of the waiters and other service people is ten > times worse than it used to be...and it was pretty bad back then! Ah, now I see. I thought you meant an "unsafe" environment perhaps (which I tried to match with the "safe" environment of managed code, of the non-hostile environment of a known IDE and development environment). Groetjes, Bob Swart -- Bob Swart Training & Consultancy (eBob42.com) Forever Loyal to Delphi Blog: http://www.drbob42.com/blog - RSS: http://drbob42.com/weblog.xml New Delphi 2006 Courseware e-books at http://www.eBob42.com/courseware __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
