Okay, well, I'm going to just go right out there and say that this was me who said this. Sometimes I have "blonde moments" and this was one of them. And btw, this has nothing to do with NYC or being a tourist, but it's a pretty stupid question, and hopefully will make you laugh.
So a preview for the movie "We are Marshall" came on when I was with a bunch of friends, and we were only half-watching the television. And they were talking about the movie and I wasn't familiar with it, so I was like "Wait, what's the movie about?" and my friend's boyfriend was like "It's about an entire football team that was killed when a plane crashed."
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Me: "IT CRASHED ON THE FIELD?!?!?"
"You know, a little orphan girl once told me that the sun would come out tomorrow. Her adopted father was a powerful billionaire, so I supressed the urge to laugh in her face. But now, by gum, I think she might have been on to something!"
--Reefer Madness