A man in a frock-coat ran through the streets shouting "Buttocks!"

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Write a single sentence, based on something you've witnessed, which somehow sums up the town where you live.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 30 January 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw him last night incidentally. I daresay that in any normal British city he would've been shouting "Arse!"

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 30 January 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Yorkville, a neighborhood in the UES of New York City:

The couple talked to each other and looked at each other but didn't look where they were going, pushing the triple-wide stroller that effectively blocked all passersby coming or going, like an SUV of the sidewalk. Still, it was a lovely day.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 30 January 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Amory, Mississippi, population approx 7000:

When I heard the gunshots next door at midnight on a Saturday, I thought they were fireworks, and wondered the next day what all the crime scene tape was about.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 30 January 2005 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

State College, PA

I found out that the local arcade (the only place underaged people could congregate downtown late at night) was being replaced by a penn state clothing store and a bar.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 30 January 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Even after they put up a traffic light and an exit off the highway, the roads continued to be more or less deserted, aside from some tailgating pickup trucks.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 30 January 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

(Is that the arcade right on College Ave., across from Atherton Hall or thereabouts? If so, I spent many a late-night dollar there. And Daddino, the irony for me is that we moved out of Yorkville just before we had a baby -- we never got to join the sidewalk stroller bridgades.)

On our current godforsaken stretch of the lower Upper East Side, near the Queensboro Bridge and a zillion post-collegiate frat bars....

Three guys in business attire and expensive-looking overcoats blundering down the sidewalk at 1 a.m. One of them seems to want to go back to wherever they just came from, the other two are kind of hustling him along and one of them says to the first guy, "Leave it, man. She's a bitch. Forget it."

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 30 January 2005 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Greasy-haired, tight pants wearin' twenty-somethings block sidewalks outside of bars, blowing smoke into my face.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 30 January 2005 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that the arcade right on College Ave., across from Atherton Hall or thereabouts? If so, I spent many a late-night dollar there.

Yes it is (I used to live in Atherton Hall). The owner retired and nobody took over before the lease ran out.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 30 January 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

and if there's one thing we don't have enough of, its beer and penn state shirts.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 30 January 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I lived in Atherton too for a while. Met my first wife there. I'm kinda sad to hear about the arcade. Not that there was anything special about it, I guess, but it was there for a long time.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 30 January 2005 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it just sucks that kids have nowhere to go downtown. Doesn't affect me but I wish they weren't pushing everybody who doesn't want to get liquored up to the mall.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 30 January 2005 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Renfrew, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

Police are still questioning a man wanted in connection with five knife attacks on Wednesday.

(I didn't witness the stabbings, but I got asked about them by the police and saw the aftermath of two of them)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 30 January 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Upon realizing that he had nothing on under the foam but his shirt, I decided it was time to run-off with the blunt the second no one was looking.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 30 January 2005 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

That's Toronto, btw.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 30 January 2005 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

How many assholes piled their snow on my car???!??!?!!!?

(Somerville, MA)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 30 January 2005 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

East St Kilda, Melbourne Australia: standing in line at my local corner shop to buy smokes. In front of me is a spotty, obviously underage Hasidic Jewish lad, in his white shirt, skullcap, the lot. He is asking for some smokes, nervously. The shopkeeper gives him a suspicious look and asks him for ID. The kid makes some mumbled excuse about it being in his other pants or the car or something. Then he gives up and runs out of the shop in a hurry.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 30 January 2005 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Costa Mesa, California

I looked at the fashion launch for a surfwear company with the generic band playing at the Lab and frowned over my biography of Napoleon while drinking some coffee.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 January 2005 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Jamaica Plain, MA:

After the blizzard, I refuse the barely-teenage Dominican kid who wants to shovel my driveway; he says, "I seen you at the bar last night!" and I realize that he was bumming smokes off people outside while I drunkenly stumbled my way through a karaoke rendition of "Every Rose Has Its Thorn."

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Monday, 31 January 2005 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Toronto

I decided to withdraw a hundred bucks from the ATM to cover a week of sundry purchases, but instead of five twenties it spat out two virtually unspendable fifties, so I was left wondering what kind of fucking genius thought that would be a good idea.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 31 January 2005 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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