Metropolitan Diary analysis: 2006-02-27

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• Second-grade girl says something precocious to help a fellow student and gets her father's voice back(?!). Category: Precocious NY Kids
• Passer-by overhears conversation about pies, cracks on George W. Bush. Category: New York Eccentrics
  
• Business guy lifts old woman up over snowbank and goes about his busy day without a word. Category: Oh, Those Fast-Paced New Yorkers!
• Girl misspells the word "sleigh", has a "brain freeze", dazzles old lady named "Peninnah Schram" (I swear I am not making this up!). Categories: Amusing Misspellings, Precocious NY KIds
• Father gives kid advice on being honest with storekeepers but taking advantage of others in business. Category: Oh, Those Fast-Paced New Yorkers!
• Boyfriend proposes to woman on Battery Park boardwalk, onlookers cheer; later, eavesdroppers in East Village restaurant congratulate them. Category: New Yorkers Aren't So Bad, After All (This was the first entry which made me think of introducing this new category, as this was not really a Rube story, as the previous Aren't So Bad entries were.)
  

Totals for this Metropolitan Diary:
Precocious NY Kids: 2
New York Eccentrics: 1
Oh, Those Fast-Paced New Yorkers!: 2
Amusing Misspellings: 1
New Yorkers Aren't So Bad, After All: 1

Totals for year to date:
Precocious NY Kids: 11
New York Eccentrics: 10
Oh, Those Fast-Paced New Yorkers!: 10
Jaded New Yorkers: 9
Rubes in the Big City: 5
Precocious NY Pets: 4
Amusing Misspellings: 4
Single New York Woman's Perspective: 3
New Yorkers Aren't So Bad, After All: 3
WTF:2