My New York Experience

I just finished reading an article from the New York Times "Newcomers Adjust, Eventually, to New York"

Here's my own story:

The first week after moving to New York and trying to understand the subway system, I saw a crowd of people suddenly start running down some stairs. I figured maybe someone had gotten hurt or some other kind of emergency. I was curious and decided to follow the crowd and see what had happened. I started laughing when I realized they were all just running to catch the train. I found it humorous because a train arrives every 5 minutes. So why kill yourself to save such a short period of time is how I saw it. Well, within a month, I caught myself acting like everyone else and running as fast to catch a incoming train. That's when I realized that I had become a New Yorker. I understood that my actions were ridiculous, but this is the big city and reason and logic had nothing to do with surviving. I may be a lemming but I wasn't a innocent from the burbs anymore.

Espanol is spanish for "we're a really stupid people"

I think I'll skip any trips to Spain for the near future. It's bad enough that these dumb jocks, and their handlers, didn't have enough sense to not do this, but then they have the audacity to say it wasn't meant to be offensive and people shouldn't be offended by their slant eye gesture. The Spanish didn't defeat the Moors, the Moors just got tired of living with such dumb people.