Metropolitan Diary analysis: 2006-02-06

• Kid would trade his father for a cat. Category: Precocious NY Kids
• Wealthy philanthropist claims to have pneumonia to avoid fund-raising events. Category: Jaded New Yorkers
• Random acts of kindness (return of additional change at bodega, return of cell phone in subway, return of lost check) greet new arrival to NYC. Categories: Rubes in the Big City, New Yorkers Aren't So Bad, After All
  
• Guy tells nurse which eye to operate on in an eccentric manner. Category: New York Eccentrics / WTF
  
• This one had a bit of the WTF factor, as in why the hell was this included?
• Person talking loudly on cell phone on bus ("fast-paced") must be drowned out by person singing opera ("eccentric"). Categories: Oh, Those Fast-Paced New Yorkers! / New York Eccentrics
• Person attempts to speak to another person in post office line; another person speaks for the group when she says "I hate it when weird strangers talk to me". Category: Jaded New Yorkers

Totals for this Metropolitan Diary:
Precocious NY Kids: 1
Jaded New Yorkers: 2
Rubes in the Big City: 1
New Yorkers Aren't So Bad, After All: 1
New York Eccentrics: 2
Oh, Those Fast-Paced New Yorkers!: 2
WTF: 1

Totals for year to date:
Jaded New Yorkers: 9
Precocious NY Kids: 7
New York Eccentrics: 5
Oh, Those Fast-Paced New Yorkers!: 5
Rubes in the Big City: 4
Amusing Misspellings: 3
Precocious NY Pets: 2
Single New York Woman's Perspective: 2
New Yorkers Aren't So Bad, After All: 2
WTF:2