I wonder.............

Subject: Re: I wonder.............

raw wrote: [quote=LongTimeSloper]if people eating in moutarde know it used to be a funeral home................

if people shopping in Union Market (6th ave location), know it used to be a huge bodega where a man was shot...................

if diners at La Villa know in it's last life, it was a pharmacy.................

What do you wonder?

If people walking on the sidewalk know that it used to be just dirt.

I do wonder wonder what is was like here in August of 1776.

FurryGreyBOy wrote: I wonder why some dog owners make the effort to pick up their dogs' crap, tie the baggie it's in, and then just leave the bag on the sidewalk...... they've done the hard part - it can't be that difficult to carry it until they find a trash can.

I think this is more likely the result of the little crap bags not quite making it from the can to the truck on garbage collection days. Which makes me wonder why more people don't line those outdoor cans with big bags and just put the big bags on the curb on garbage days, instead of leaving everyone in the building to put their little kitchen bags/grocery bags filled with garbage/fast food bags/dog mess bags in the can itself and hoping your garbage man is 1) diligent enough to shake it all out, and 2) good enough with the aim to make sure you don't get strays. And from the looks of things in my area the morning after garbage collection - the garbage guys are neither.

I wonder if there's ever been more than two non-employees inside the T-Mobile store that replaced Video Edge at one time?

(same for the Verizon store across the street)

I wonder if the annoying guy handing out flyers for Mojo Wireless on Flatbush has ever successfully lured a customer in......or remembered a face?

I wonder why my wife runs into all the celebs in PS and I don't. She just saw Leanne from Project Runway on Flatbush this morning.

I wonder why my upstairs neighbors insist on throwing their garbage out the window into the backyard of the building. Seems to me it would be easier to throw trash in the trash can rather than open a window, open a screen, throw said garbage out the window, close the screen, close the window, and return to generating more garbage which leads to a repeat of this same process several times a day. This is not to mention how I wonder how they don't mind looking out into a garbage strewn backyard. And this is also not to mention how I wonder why they deny doing this when confronted when they're the only possible people who could be doing it.

I'm moving to a place where I can wonder about more interesting topics.

Toadette wrote:
I think this is more likely the result of the little crap bags not quite making it from the can to the truck on garbage collection days. Which makes me wonder why more people don't line those outdoor cans with big bags and just put the big bags on the curb on garbage days, instead of leaving everyone in the building to put their little kitchen bags/grocery bags filled with garbage/fast food bags/dog mess bags in the can itself and hoping your garbage man is 1) diligent enough to shake it all out, and 2) good enough with the aim to make sure you don't get strays. And from the looks of things in my area the morning after garbage collection - the garbage guys are neither.

Ya gotta have some sympathy for those parkside garbage men; they have to empty that entire strip of cans, and every single one is FILLED with dog shit. Every. Single. Can.

In the summer it gets to the point that I have to do a running deposit into the can with my dog's dooky in order to avoid gagging from the funk.

lnelson wrote: [quote=Obamanut][quote=winstonsmith]

I but you a wondering why there is no Alplebees in Park Slope

Actually, no, of course there is no Applebee's in Park Slope, because the hipster yuppies would picket it and/or burn it down. They are out here trying to run away from and deny their despised suburban roots like Applebee's, Best Buy, etc., and they think "Dub Pies" and the "Wafel" truck are their ticket to being real New Yorkers.

There's an Applebee's near BAM, if you're really craving riblets. But more to the point, are you suggesting that the presence of an Applebee's would give Park Slope some kind of genuine Brooklyn cred that the presence of the Kennedy's Fried Chicken, Mandee's, and "99-cent Bazar" on 5th Ave somehow fail to establish? I moved here from the Bronx. 5th Ave South of 9th Street looks exactly like Allerton Ave. up there.

No, I do not want to go to Applebee's. I have met suburban friends there once in some mall. It was a surreal experience.

It was my sascastic way of suggesting that Obamanut could go there to avoid her/his neighbors.

i wonder why Obamanut lives here yet complains about it continuously on a online message board. I disliked what my home town was turning into so i moved. Its not hard.

I work right across from the BedStuy Applebee's. Nothing wrong with their blackened fish sandwich, except that it's slightly overpriced.

There are some things at Ruby Tuesday's that qualify as downright yummy.

We act like we despise the chains Obamanut mention but, one opens up somewhere in the city, and everyone's like, "ohmygod....isn't this great....we have a Bed Bath, and Beyond!"

Sometimes, NYC's a lot like the suburbs it tries to not be, only it's just more of PITA to do the same things.

So let's enjoy both our city, borough, and nabe's individuality, quirks, and inconsistencies.

I wonder how do people fit those huge dogs into their tiny apartments? I have a cat, and the cat is always (of course purposely) in the way.

Obamanut wrote: [quote=LongTimeSloper]I wonder why I never see any Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts around this neighborhood. don't kids around here join those organizations anymore?

Boys Scouts and Girl Scouts blatantly discriminate against little girls and boys respectively (by distinguishing between the two, remember the infamous "Lost Little Boy's Hat?) and thus they are not welcome in our post-gender neighborhood.

Not to mention, their uniforms are reminiscent of the military (another big no-no).

obamanut, the BOY scouts are the issue: you have to believe in god and not be gay. the girl scouts are a very progressive organization and likely would allow boy members--i am supposing here, i do not know this for a fact.

are there boy scouts in PS? that would surprise me

brooklynpotter wrote:
obamanut, the BOY scouts are the issue: you have to believe in god and not be gay. the girl scouts are a very progressive organization and likely would allow boy members--i am supposing here, i do not know this for a fact.

are there boy scouts in PS? that would surprise me

There used to be a troop in Windsor Terrace a decade or so ago; they used to do their camping and activities in Our Lady's Field (aka "Our Besieged-By-Salivating-Developers Lady's Field").

As for boys joining the Girl Scouts, well now that sounds like a wonderful idea. As if the young boys growing up in current-day Park Slope aren't going to have a tough enough time as it is trying to figure out the meaning of masculinity as they attempt to grow up, thanks to the fact that Park Slope in the year 2009 has about the same testosterone level of Richard Simmons.

i wonder why the f train, while in brooklyn, runs at about 1 mph

whynot_31 wrote: I wonder if Mr. Beagan, the outreach worker for the United Homeless Organization, knows how much I despise it when he boards my car at Borough Hall each morning.

I know the man has a job to do, but just sayin'.

UHO is a complete scam, and anyone who gives money to them is a chump. Read about it here: http://georgeweberthenewsguy.blogspot.com/2008/06/scam-united-homeless-organization.html

Obamanut wrote: [quote=whynot_31]I wonder if Mr. Beagan, the outreach worker for the United Homeless Organization, knows how much I despise it when he boards my car at Borough Hall each morning.

I know the man has a job to do, but just sayin'.

UHO is a complete scam, and anyone who gives money to them is a chump. Read about it here: http://georgeweberthenewsguy.blogspot.com/2008/06/scam-united-homeless-organization.html

I have seen that website as well. But Mr Beagan carries a bag of food and gives it to anybody who wants it.

I don't give them money, I give them food