Tidbits: NYC

We got to New York yesterday and I'm running around to a bunch of meetings, but I thought I would throw out some random bits that have been floating around in my notebook.

**Following last week's post about the terrifying state of breakfast cereal characters, I received a totally hilarious email from a friend who postulated the fact perhaps Lucky the Lepracaun and Snap, Crackle, and Pop (among others) are just GAYER than they've ever been, and since it's more ok to be gay now, the cereal people are just letting the characters be "out."   It's a good theory, and I might never look at breakfast cereal the same way again.  Consider it the next time you're at the store.  I know I will.

**Ever since I started doing this blog, I now see weird stuff all the time.  Case in point:  on Saturday I was walking down Wilshire in L.A., and I saw an old woman carrying just the head part of a parking meter.  Not only was I surprised that a relatively slight woman could carry what I had previously thought to be a really heavy object, but I seriously debated making a citizens arrest.  Seriously?  Are regular people allowed to just, TAKE the top of the parking meter?  You just have no idea how much I wished I'd had my camera at that moment.

**Following the Zombie Flu of 2008, I have decided to join my husband in his germaphobia, since I got The Virus and he didn't.  So, now I'm slowly learning the way of the Hand Sanitizer Carrying Warrior.  Do you even know how many times you touch your face per day?  All I'm saying is, once you start paying attention to this kind of stuff, it grosses you out a little.