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(in no particular order)

highlight number 1: a scary man walking up to mrs. g. and saying "hey beautiful. i want to be your best friend!" the proceeding to follow us and asking pertinent information, such as where we live and what our phone numbers are. we would have loved to just dodge this strange man, however, this was not as easy as one may think. we were crammed in the day after thanksgiving holiday sidewalk pedestrian traffic. should we have stepped off the curb, we would have been killed by insane taxi drivers and typical day after thanksgiving and every other day of the year nyc street traffic.

highlight number 2: getting a free ride on the subway.

highlight number 3: 12 pashmina scarves and 4 bags

highlight number 4: running into jack reed at some random 5th ave tea store muy cerca de tiffany's.

highlight number 5: taxi ride from hell. seriously. someone tried to cut us off, but our driver would have none of that. finally the other car was at a 120 angle to us and managed to get in front as our driver slammed on his breaks and whiplash was experienced all around. the two of our cars reached a red light, and the driver (now in front of us) actually got out of his car to make sure we were all okay, to which our driver responded angrily with an overzealous yes! and a you better be more careful next time! we all drove off, a happy ending because all lived.

highlight number 6: radio city music hall christmas spectacular orchestra seats at half price

highlight number 7: running into paul shafer (david letterman's drummer) at sharper image in rockefeller plaza and talking to him for a minute

highlight number 8: patty's mom bruising my arms as she grabbed me to protect herself from the crazy squirrels at our apartment

highlight number 9: the crazy squirrels at our apartment eating dry roasted peanuts from ines' hand

highlight number 10: as we were leaving the city, there were long lines at the toll. mrs g remarked to my mother "you can't depart without beeping the horn at least once!" so, as someone tried to cut off my mom in the toll line (ours was going faster than the other, i guess), she decided to beep. the guy then proceeded to take out his car club and threateningly shake it at us while staring menacingly at us in his rear view window.

highlight number 11: my mom actually saying "oh! i think he means his directional is broken!"

highlight number 12: the bumper sticker on his car that said kiss my ass

i <3 new york.