Dallas didn't seem to have as many crazy people. Perhaps they were locked away or moved off to sanctuary cities like Austin. For whatever reason, they were pretty rare. Not so in NYC!
Crazy people:
1. Woman is holding a conversation with herself. She is walking on the sidewalk next to me and holding both sides of the conversation.
Woman: We need to go grocery shopping.
Woman: I hate grocery shopping.
Woman: I know, but you ate all the food.
Woman: No I didn't. You ate the apples, remember?
Woman: It was a banana.
Woman: No it wasn't, you hate bananas.
I quickly passed and went into the subway.
2. Erin and I are riding the subway. A man gets on and just starts screaming profanity for no reason. He gets real close to people and shouts at them and then moves on to the next person. At one point he sits on someone's lap and everyone pushes him away. Then he sits two seats away from us and screams about how he's not afraid to die. Pretty much no one looks up.
3. I am sitting on a bench in the subway and a woman with a shopping cart starts shrieking and cackling for no reason. She sounds like an evil mad scientist as she strolls along the platform with her shopping cart full of crap. No one looks up.
4. Erin and I are riding the subway and a very big man comes in the car asking for money. After no one gives him any, he pulls out a huge stack of $100 bills and starts counting them in plain view of everyone. No one else seems to notice.
5. A man enters the train covered in dust and starts running down the aisle screaming nonsense. At the next stop, a passenger drags him out of the car. No one evens looks up.
Apparently you become used to crazy people and stop noticing them. So far, I still notice when someone with only one shoe wearing a winter parka gets on the train and starts talking to his invisible friend.
You may notice that the crazies seem to live in the subway. I guess the parks and roads are patrolled by the NYPD while the subway corridors aren't.
Crazy people:
1. Woman is holding a conversation with herself. She is walking on the sidewalk next to me and holding both sides of the conversation.
Woman: We need to go grocery shopping.
Woman: I hate grocery shopping.
Woman: I know, but you ate all the food.
Woman: No I didn't. You ate the apples, remember?
Woman: It was a banana.
Woman: No it wasn't, you hate bananas.
I quickly passed and went into the subway.
2. Erin and I are riding the subway. A man gets on and just starts screaming profanity for no reason. He gets real close to people and shouts at them and then moves on to the next person. At one point he sits on someone's lap and everyone pushes him away. Then he sits two seats away from us and screams about how he's not afraid to die. Pretty much no one looks up.
3. I am sitting on a bench in the subway and a woman with a shopping cart starts shrieking and cackling for no reason. She sounds like an evil mad scientist as she strolls along the platform with her shopping cart full of crap. No one looks up.
4. Erin and I are riding the subway and a very big man comes in the car asking for money. After no one gives him any, he pulls out a huge stack of $100 bills and starts counting them in plain view of everyone. No one else seems to notice.
5. A man enters the train covered in dust and starts running down the aisle screaming nonsense. At the next stop, a passenger drags him out of the car. No one evens looks up.
Apparently you become used to crazy people and stop noticing them. So far, I still notice when someone with only one shoe wearing a winter parka gets on the train and starts talking to his invisible friend.
You may notice that the crazies seem to live in the subway. I guess the parks and roads are patrolled by the NYPD while the subway corridors aren't.
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