Metropolitan Diary Analysis: 2006-04-24

Whoa, check it out, I found a link to all the Metropolitan Diary entries: clicky

Here's a single click for Monday's for you Fast-Paced New Yorkers: 2006-04-24

Here's the analysis:

• Woman enters dog "Melvin" in raffle. Category: Precocious NY Pets (Remember, this category includes pet owners.)
• Morningside Heights musicians are overheard referring to 61st & 2nd as "the middle of nowhere". Category: Jaded New Yorkers
  
• Man makes bet with taxi driver on Florida-George Mason game; leaving the money with the driver, who lives in the nearby projects. Unexpectedly, the taxi driver pays back the wager! Category: New Yorkers Aren't So Bad, After All!
  
• Panhandler bothers visiting theatre-goers, who are rescued when mounted policeman bodily picks up the "beggar" and puts him down on the other side of the street. Category: Rubes in the Big City
  
• Man dupes Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum visitors by pretending to be a wax dummy while his daughter is talking and not looking at him. Category: Rubes in the Big City (I believe that the visiting daughter from Atlanta plus duping other museum-goers makes this a clear Rubes choice. Unless someone wants to argue for NY Eccentrics (the writer)...)
  

Totals for this Metropolitan Diary:
Jaded New Yorkers: 1
New Yorkers Aren't So Bad, After All: 1
Precocious NY Pets: 1
Rubes in the Big City: 2

Totals for year to date:
Amusing Misspellings: 9
Jaded New Yorkers: 19
New York Eccentrics: 16
New Yorkers Aren't So Bad, After All: 7
Oh, Those Fast-Paced New Yorkers!: 10
Precocious NY Kids: 19
Precocious NY Pets: 5
Rubes in the Big City: 11
Single New York Woman's Perspective: 3
WTF: 2