This kind of thing really happens now and then. It’s a testament to how glorious life can be when we let ourselves relax and just enjoy each others’ company, even if we’re strangers.
This kind of thing really happens now and then. It’s a testament to how glorious life can be when we let ourselves…
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Awesome NYC.
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did you take this? Why is that guy announcing them?
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I didn’t take it, no; As I understand it the bongo guys (who I recognize) set up to play and she just joined right in.
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ha! love it!
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… Or a dead show (back when there were such things) or a college city or san francisco or all sorts of other places than just new York
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I didn’t say that this sort of thing only happened in NYC, so…
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No you didn’t, the nycentric original poster did (and admittedly I often had that ‘only in NYC’ feeling when I lived there too)
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Ahh, but I think it IS safe to say that only in NYC are you likely to see the spontaneous public collaboration of professional public bongo performers and a ukelele-playing union hall regular on a train going under a river.
Point definitely taken that people play music together all over the world, but this was a little extra special because of the distance between what happened and what people’s expectations about NYC generally are (no matter how incorrect those expectations happen to be).
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Right, of all the cities in the world, only in NYC are people so special that this kind of thing would happen.
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I don’t think I said anything remotely like that, beyond speculating that the specific combination of ukelele, bongo, and train-under-river might be unique due to its specificity.
My only point is that it’s awesome when people have fun with each other, especially when they’re strangers.
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I think the point here is that usually on these trains people avoid speaking to each other or even looking at each other if they can help it. Awesome things like this don’t happen all of the time but they are pretty amazing when they do and we should celebrate them. Many other places in the world wouldn’t even bother mentioning things like this because it’s more commonplace.
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Mike – Taken literally, yes, but if taken more generally with this as an example it can be read as ‘this sort of thing only happens in NYC’. But of course, now thinking about how you would state that, the specificity was the point. A ‘vector for humor’ as you might put it.
Also I’m just being a PITA. 🙂
I was only mildly annoyed by it being qualified it as a ‘true new york experience’ comment. Probably as an nyc expat who is tired of nycentrism. NYC is an awesome city. There are others too.
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