you know you're not in the city when

[cornbreadboi]

1. you come out of your house and a person walking on the sidewalk stops to tell you how lovely your garden is. long enough to point at and touch particular flowers. and confuse you with friendliness

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[hhholiday]

my relationship with the fierce raccoons of Deep East Oakland is just the same... i never had this problem living in manhattan for 15 years!

thanks for the great ice cream class-- those cookies were swell, btw.

[cornbreadboi]

yes, somehow all the vermin in ny didn't scare me as much as a squirrel breaking into my house and raccoons protecting their territory. It could be that no rat in nyc gets as big as the smaller of the two raccoons, which was the size of a mid sized dog!

but it's hard to find night blooming jasmine in nyc, so I'm glad to be here.

nice to have you in the class! thanks for your good words!

[pantryslut]

Raccoons *are* scary! For one thing, as you say, they're huge!

Of course, I'm also scared of squirrels. And rats.

And mice.

They have sharp teeth!

OTOH, I'm not afraid of spiders. That must count for something.

[cornbreadboi]

the spiders? yes, a point for that. but maybe not after you get a spider bite. they can be uncomfortable to the point of a trip to Highlands Hospitol! (as you can see it not the spiders so much as the institution they might get you to.)

[beccawrites]

but you know you're a new yorker when you say "the city" and mean new york city or manhattan. :)

[cornbreadboi]

THIS is part of a large discussion indeed! Maybe on our subway ride to coney island I'll tell you about how everyone in my college dorm thought I was conceited because I said I was from New York when they knew I had grown upo in Manhattan.

When I hear people say they live in Manhattan it still makes my new yorker skin crawl. It's then that i know they're not From there!