Metropolitan Diary Analysis: 2006-04-10

Link to today's Metro Diary

Please note: I entered the totals into a spreadsheet so I could better keep track of them if I decide to change categories or perform analysis on them. And the totals changed slightly, though no categories overtook any other categories. Perhaps if I run out of things to post I will share the spreadsheet with you. Won't that be interesting? hahahah, don't answer

• Bus driver argues with passenger about whether or not there is space in the back of the bus. Category: Jaded New Yorkers (Jaded is not the perfect category; this would best fit a "Real New Yorkers" category, which could encompass the Eccentrics, Jaded, and Fast-Paced, and would utterly overtake the current leader, Precocious NY Kids. But Jaded is best for now since I don't feel like revisiting all the entries.)
  
• Visiting 3-year-old amusingly recounts that her neighbor "lives in the garbage room". Category: Precocious NY Kids
• Classy Long Island individual's rare(?) Harley-Davidson mailbox(?) is stolen, and upon complaining to individuals in post office line, they suggest that he check eBay for it. Category: Jaded New Yorkers
• "Barely Spinach" soup amusingly turns out to be barley spinach soup! Oh, those foreign deli counter workers, they just can't spell properly! Category: Amusing Misspellings
• Letter writer is a relatively good sport when a "well-dressed gentleman of a certain age" politely suggests that she is nagging her daughter. Category: New York Eccentrics (Not easy to categorize this one. I will deem the older gentleman an "eccentric" for calling out the letter writer. If I had a "Real New Yorkers" category, the writer/nagger would certainly fall in that category.)
• Pregnant woman cracks joke at slogan on Post Office truck: "We deliver for you." Category: Jaded New Yorkers (Again, I think more that the pregnant woman would be a "Real New Yorker" but perhaps it'll end up there someday. Don't you just love my asinine meta-commentary?)
• Sales tax auditor demonstrates negative worldview upon hearing Kafka slogan. Category: Jaded New Yorkers (insert same interesting meta-commentary here as above)
  

Totals for this Metropolitan Diary:
Amusing Misspellings: 1
Jaded New Yorkers: 4
New York Eccentrics: 1
Precocious NY Kids: 1

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