They must get a less profane group of construction workers slightly farther uptown from me. The following was from the NY Times Metropolitan Diary today and I thought it was charming:
Overheard by Patrick Keeffe recently as he walked to the office: a group of construction workers sitting on a terrace wall on 52nd Street, outside the CBS building. One guy pulled a cellphone from his pants pocket. Another said, "Hey, you shouldn't carry that in your pocket; it could make you impudent."Posted by Random Penseur at August 23, 2004 08:08 AM
It's nice that the "uptown" construction workers are so concerned with manners!
Posted by: GrammarQueen at August 23, 2004 08:58 AMThank you! It was my first smile of the day. I really needed the "impudence".
Posted by: michele at August 23, 2004 11:29 AMIs there a pill you can take to relieve male impudence?
Posted by: stolypin at August 23, 2004 09:20 PMThis reminds me of ther guy I used to work with (in Construction) who would refer to an optical illusion as a "testicle contusion". Jokingly, of course.
Posted by: Mark D. Firestone at August 29, 2004 10:29 AM