An Out-of-Manhattan Experience

Today, I had a very interesting experience near work. Now, before I tell you this, you need to understand a little about the area that I work. Most of the people who populate the financial district work in one of the banks on Wall Street. These are certified city folk who usually don't own a car (well, not one that they actually DRIVE), pay a maid to watch their children, and probably have a home at the Cape, the Hamptons, or some other suitably civilized vacation destination. Imagine my surprise, then, when I saw, parked on the street outside my office, a PICKUP truck with a FOUR WHEELER in the back! This sighting was so strange and foreign to me in lower Manhattan that I had to break my newly-acquired "agressive New-Yorker" stride to get a closer look. Upon inspection, the anomale became a little less anomal-ish. First, the pickup was white, a particularly saline color for a pickup. Furthermore, neither the truck nor the ATV (as Taylor likes to call them, so official!) looked as though it had ever seen a unpaved road, let alone anything that might require an "All-terrain vehicle." Bother were shiny and new looking, probably the result of some executive's off-handed comment "You know what I would like, one of those little bike thingies that you can't fall off of with a truck to pull it" and his assistant's over zealous response. Regardless, I was quite entertained by the sighting in Manhattan - whether or not it has ever actually been on the open road.