Chipoat asked;
"I live in Manhattan. What's a gunny sack and what's a State Fair?"
Chip:
You are a real New Yorker, aren't you? I ask this with total respect, particularly since I used to live in Manhattan too once, but, do you or can you drive a car?
The only reason I ask is I had a wonderful girlfriend once, for years, who was a real true New Yorker--so much so in fact that for the first year or so I never really knew if she drove or could drive a car, since she never did that I knew of, living the way she did in NYC.
Her father was a Federal judge and they had a house on Park and one on the south shore of LI and after a year or so I found out. One day she called up and got a car brought around out of a garage and she got behind the wheel and took off like a bat out of hell. It was incredible--she appeared to have no sense at all of what was going on around her.
I mean, Chip, I grew up in Daytona Beach and the everlastingly famous Fireball Roberts was a good friend and I have nerves of steel on the road but this was something different. This girl was ten times crazier than the wildest Mexican taxi driver (in Mexico City that is).
So after about ten blocks in the city I said; "Whoa Maggie, pull this car over and I'm driiving to LI"--and she did. I asked her how in hell she ever got a license and she said that was a long story. I asked her how often did she drive a car and she said maybe once every five years or so.
So I'm asking you again, Chip--as a real true New Yorker who doesn't know what a gunny sack or a state fair is, both of which are basically SOP to us country mice---do you or do you not drive a car?