Sales

New York

I went out to the Bronx last night just to take a look around. Not really knowing where's a good place to go out there I took the 4 train right to the end of the line at Woodlawn, a supposedly Irish area of town. That may have been the case once but not now, there was nary a Paddy in sight. In fact there wasn't much going on at all, a combination of Thanksgiving and the freezing cold gale keeping everyone indoors, so I got the train all the way back to the East Village. Oddly enough the two pubs I visited both had Irish barmaids, genuinely Irish too, not just pseudo American-Irish. I had a couple of drinks and finished off "Wuthering Heights."

Today's the day after Thanksgiving and so it's the post-Thanksgiving sales. It's still freezing but at least it's sunny, and the city is rammed with shoppers. On 5th Avenue - a place where 'bargain' hunting is a somewhat relative term - the whole world and his trophy wife are perusing the various boutiques and peering into the windows of the top end jewellers' shops. Trying to get through the throng of people takes ages and means even I couldn't help looking in the windows too. None of the things on sale seem to have price tags attached. As the saying goes, if you have to ask the price, you really can't afford it.