Planning a BWAY (NYC) trip ??? DON'T do these things! — Page 2

"If you do not wish to jaywalk, be considerate of New Yorkers by not blocking them from crossing at an intersection while you are waiting for your signal."

I just LOVE the official WIKI NY ettiquette rules!

OR, (the consequences???????)

Yeah, I totally jaywalk about 30 times a day.
If I see no cars, I walk.
If I see cars, I don't walk.
Simple.

Adding to the "stupid things NOT to say" list... Upon my mother's first trip, we were loading her bags into my car at LGA. She noticed a man walking by with payot and a yarmulke. She said, "Amber, look... a Jewish person!" I said, "If that excites you, it's going to be one hell of a trip." I swear, I don't think she had ever met a Jewish person until that point. Just a fact.

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1. DON't walk in packs of 100, linking arms, clogging up every crosswalk from 40th to 50th st.

To amend to that...if you're standing outside John's on 44th, MOVE TO THE SIDE!!!! I swear to God, walking half a block to the train station is excrutiating, because some group, every single day, has to take over the ENTIRE width of the sidewalk to wait on line. 95% of the time, I have to walk in the street to get by you. Group leaders, stop scratching your ass and do some crowd control on your group, it's what you're there for.

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If going to New York, kindly don't decide to walk quickly, suddenly stop and demand that your whole family pose for a picture in the middle of a crowded street. Also, you don't need to spend fifteen minutes staring up at the skyscrapers. Thank you. The sky is not that interesting.

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That must be amazing, to see a skyscraper for the first time. I'm not from NY, but my city has a bajillion skyscrapers anyway, I've never NOT seen one.

I'll definitely rethink being immediately annoyed with people who stare at the sky from now on.

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Who can resist those breadsticks at Olive Garden? lol

Updated On: 5/3/09 at 01:27 AM

It's just logical.

That's the problem, Lizzie. Apparently when some people visit New York, all logic is shot to hell. This woman was eating a bag of chips next to me during Curtains Saturday night.

These are all very good rules.

My one annoyance before "In the Heights" on Thursday was from a group of girls sitting behind me. If you need to talk to each other, do so quietly. The rest of us do not need to hear your conversation. It was obnoxious because they were talking about other shows, which none of them had seen, except for a couple I think. Then they were discussing the movie "Rent." That part got interesting though. They were originally just talking about Karen Olivo playing Mimi at one point in the show's run, but not the movie. And then they pretty much annouced loudly that the actress who originally played her on Broadway couldn't do the movie because she got knocked up. I'm sure that wasn't entirely true, and for the average person to hear, it sounded pretty ignorant.

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Me too, E.Taboo. I live and work 2 blocks from John's.
I think one day, I will buy a BULL HORN and start announcing to the tourists that they "must get in a single file line against the wall"...or else! NO PATTI FOR YOU!!

See, I'm quite happy to visit the Olive Garden, but we don't have it over here and I like to sample US culture, even things like the Olive Garden and Appleby's. XD We do have TGIs and McDonalds, so I wouldn't visit those in New York. I also tried Twinkies when I was in America once, and that was an error. How do people eat that stuff? :/

And people walking several-abreast, regardless of the fact they're blocking the entire pavement? SO not a New York exclusive. Although in the more regional UK towns, these groups seem to be more likely to be made up of elderly people, so at least it's only a couple of seconds sprinting into the road to get past them at their snail-pace. ^_^

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Updated On: 7/1/08 at 06:59 AM

Don't sing your favorite showtunes outside of your favorite theater in hopes that you'll get noticed, or someone is going to tell you your good. Chances are you're not. Or someone can come along and do it better than you.

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"5. DO NOT buy any food from a "deli" or salad bar containing MAYO. You WILL be sorry, throwing up in the balcony of the St. James Theater. "

And here i was thinking that watching Patti in Gypsy is what was making me puke up there.