I thought New Yorkers were mean and rude.

Carrying on.

I loved Grand Central Station. They sent me a letter once. There was this man, once I saw him, he was selling hot dogs. I wanted a hot dog. I had a bagel instead. It was good but I dropped it on the sidewalk and a pig ate it. I think it was a pig. Perhaps it was a homeless pigeon. It was covered in shit. Maybe a stockbroker. But they don't eat bagels. It did get on the 4:14 to New Haven so who knows.

He wanted to blow you.

[quote] the bottom of the isles

Have you been to the Isle of Greece? I have.

New Yorkers have come a way since the asshole days. I hadn't been there in a couple of decades and I was shocked at how friendly they were, meaning mostly the younger ones because old New Yorkers still have that rough and distant attitude.

[quote] I had a bagel instead.

So you selected the bagle not the sabotge.

Do they still have Cigarette Girls?

OP was it your first time in New York. The asshole New Yorker is definitely a false stereotype. It’s because New Yorkers mind they motherfucking business and don’t do fake nice. If anything I feel like New Yorkers are more agreeable than other people. To me there is a New York State of mind that sort of makes you smarter as you navigate life. It makes one able to rationalize and employ a degree of fairness wherever the setting.

Were you plying your trade at the game?

It sounds like he was trying to fuck

I’ve seen New Yorkers be meaner than hell to each other but they always bent over backwards to help my Midwesterner ass. They have a sixth sense about who’s not from there and doesn’t quite know where they’re going. Particularly in the pre-smartphone era and having to navigate with paper maps.

R11 They could either sense your kind heartedness or feebleness and didn’t want you in any danger. Like I said it’s rooted in real world intelligence; why would kick someone while there down. They were likely mean to other New Yorkers who deserved that shit.

I have been there many times. They aren't mean, but they are kind of gruff. They will help you if you ask. But I don't buy the whole "they will tell you like it is" BS line to pass off for why no one on the planet considers therm polite or or god forbid friendly.

I'm guessing that people at MLB games tend to be nice people.

Maybe he has a gayling grandson and wanted to make you feel comfortable.

Remember that thread about a DLer going to his first baseball game? That was hilarious.

New Yorkers are nice until they get on DL.

Random straight dudes don't smile at you OP unless it's in jest. "look that that queen, what's he doing here, shouldn't he be practicing for his next drag show".

R18 I’ve had older white dudes smile at me since I was about 12. Not with any perversion either. I am very nice looking and look non threatening. It still occurs obviously with less frequency as I’m aging but a lot of times they think I’m like 20 or 21. They are just being nice.

Oop- R10.

But on another note, I agree on their agreeableness. They seem very outspoken describe the “icy, reserved” demeanor they get stereotypes of having. Just a thought though.

Hard on the outside, soft on the inside. The first words might be “fuck you”, but the next ones will be “do you need some help with that?”

Opposite of California.

The real assholes are in New Hampshire.

Food trumps homophobia.

[quote] I’ve had older white dudes smile at me since I was about 12. Not with any perversion either. I am very nice looking and look non threatening. It still occurs obviously with less frequency as I’m aging but a lot of times they think I’m like 20 or 21. They are just being nice.

BS. It does not matter how good looking you think you are, straight guys do no smile at gay queens randomly on the street unless they are also gay or laughing at your look.

Were you wearing a handkerchief in one of your back pockets? What color & what pocket?

You may, unintentionally, be sending the wrong signals

The city wasn't the same after 21 changed their lawn jockeys to white.

They're just very angry.

- A Very Angry Native New Yorker

I don’t even look queeny R24. I was wearing a uniform, I look like an average guy.

Does that make the sex better R28?

Speaking as an oldish New Yorker who has stank face I can tell you that I get alot of attitude from strangers but when I respond with kindness in a friendly manner I can see that they realize they've misjudged me and their attitudes change.

R22, they are crazy, too.

That was me and she was my cousin.

How you doin’?

I find people in NYC are always so kind and I'm a hick from the sticks.

As NYC has gentrified, nicer, younger people have moved in. Sometimes I miss gruff and rough NYC but mostly I don’t.

Yes. But they make the city so dull with their uninteresting personalities and blandness.

Aisle have some peanuts and cracker jack.

I lived in Manhattan for 35 years. New Yorkers are very often the friendliest people you'll meet.

R37, please marry me.

I can always tell who is not originally from NYC, they are all haughty, judgemental and self-righteous about living in NYC. They also tend to be unfriendly and uncool.

[quote]I loved Grand Central Station.

It's not a station.

That’s reassuring R38.

R38, these posters are not “marinated”. NYCers are wonderful.