How to Piss Off Every New Yorker in 36 Seconds

Your youtube selection is alway hilarious !
I am also sharing some on my blog

xo

It works in Paris too ! So true that I laughed for 5 minutes ! I can add “Walking slowly and stop in the middle of the sidewalk” or “Coming in the subway with all my luggage”.

Too funny! Loved this!

this made me laugh, too! and made me miss ny terribly!

I think all of these things are true for every major city! Though the metrocard thing totally threw me. NO other city in the US has you swipe a transit card like a credit card! Weird. The first time I visited new york I actually watched people use the turnstiles before I ever got on the subway. I didn’t want to announce my tourist status to the world. :)

“Culture peaked in the 80s” — agreed!

Istanbul, the same. Just change the subways with metrobus :P

And once I even stopped the guy who was about to get into the cab that I’d been waiting for the last 15 mins. I literally tore his tiny hands off from the cab’s door with my poisonous mouth. Dude, that cab was mine.

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hahaha! So true!
I found the Metrocard bit especially funny – it took me a while to master that one to get through on the first try :-)

Only mildly related: have you heard of the Mapping Manhattan project?
? I think it’s super interesting:

http://mapyourmemories.tumblr.com/mappingmanhattan
http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2013/05/17/im-jealous-of-becky-cooper-manhattan/

omg – that was absolutely hilarious because it is so right on! Another would be slow-walkers, three abreast on the sidewalk.

Pretty much how to piss off a Londoner too! :P

So true! And I second aa31b8d4-3390-11e0-b088-000bcdcb471e 2:53 PM that we need an “express lane” on the sidewalk for NYers!

These are good to know since we Bostonians live to piss off New Yorkers !!

I am very happy I didn’t do any of these when I was in New York :)

Love,
Nancy

I think this is probably true of every big city.

When I lived in Germany the expression was Rechts Stehen, Links Gehen on the escalators. which meant if you are standing.. stay to the right so that people can walk on the left side of the escalator. I have been in big cities a lot of this applies to any situation where you are in a crowd of some sort. It’s funny though. I wouldn’t trade my rural to semisuburban environment for anything. I love sitting on my back steps and seeing not one single house.. just the peaceful pond with geese and the occasional blue heron! I love being back in the woods 2 miles from the nearest paved road. Sure.. you don’t have a coffee shop to walk to or whatever.. but you can make coffee at home without some snoot giving you a hard time because you don’t order it “properly”. It helps that we are great cooks.. I can tell you from experience that the steamed lobster with drawn butter is just as good when you eat it at home..lol.

I guess it’s just as foreign for a New Yorker to think how anyone could be happy living on a 65 or 4 acre property without things within walking distance. (though within reasonable drives..:)).. as it is to understand how someone would put up with living in such close confines with so many other people! Both types of living certainly have their plusses and minuses.. but for me.. I will take Oliver’s farm over Ava’s city.. (Green Acres reference there ha!).

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He forgot, “standing in the middle of the sidewalk and looking up/taking pics” AND/OR “NOT HAVING A TOURIST LANE ON THE SIDEWALK” lol

This probably shows how naive I am, but…

i am appalled that people would steal newspapers from someone’s porch/front door!!!! have you no common curtsey??

The Metrocard… lmao

haha. spot on.

love this. so true.

Ha, looks like a lot of that stuff could be true of any big city! :)

“doing anything in times square” hahaha this video cracked me up – so true!

this is awesome!

This all sounds awfully familiar.. I’m from Toronto! I guess the same rules apply :)

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