Two Village characters at the corner of Houston and Sixth:
Character #1: ...but what she was telling me was not what I wanted to hear.
Character #2: What did you want to hear?
Character #1: What I wanted to hear was something about rhythmic pattern, scale, and harmonic structure. Was what I wanted to hear.
Three out-of-town students on the subway:
Dude #1: So we went into a Rite Aid kind of thing but they had no liquor.
Dude #2: Crazy.
Dude #1: So in the liquor store they had no Coke to go with the whiskey.
Dude #2: Crazy.
Girl: Must be a New York thing?