Metropolitan Diary analysis: 2006-01-30

• Divorced woman's reaction to learning that a pillow with armrests for reading in bed is called a "husband". Category: Single New York Woman's Perspective
• After MTA train is halted in Mamroneck, couple offers writer and person from Tennessee a ride to the city, cautioning person from Tennessee "Now don't go back and say New Yorkers are not nice." Categories: Rubes in the Big City, New Yorkers Aren't So Bad After All
  
• Misspelling in window of Harlem store: "Repairs done on promises". Category: Amusing Misspellings
• 6-year-old girl whose mother recently gave birth refers to pain from a stomach virus as "contractions". Category: Precocious NY Kids
• Video store clerk thinks request for Woody Allen's "Anything Else" is a request for a recommendation. Category: Amusing Misspellings
• Really this is an unamusing misinterpretation, but I have enough categories already

Totals for this Metropolitan Diary:
Single New York Woman's Perspective: 1
Rubes in the Big City: 1
New Yorkers Aren't So Bad, After All: 1
Amusing Misspellings: 2
Precocious NY Kids: 1

Totals for year to date:
Jaded New Yorkers: 7
Precocious NY Kids: 6
New York Eccentrics: 3
Rubes in the Big City: 3
Oh, Those Fast-Paced New Yorkers!: 3
Amusing Misspellings: 3
Precocious NY Pets: 2
Single New York Woman's Perspective: 2
New Yorkers Aren't So Bad, After All: 1
WTF: 1