81st and York (New York)

Lots of cuties in here today but that is not my focus. My focus, as usual, is more on the human aspect of what is happening to us as a society. You get your "normal" people like the sweet woman with the cute kid that asked me if I prefer my blackberry to the iphone and had a regular, polite conversation as some people still do and then you get the woman that I asked about my hot chocolate when I couldn't hear the barista who was too self-involved to even stop her phone conversation and respond to me. Instead she just motioned, "I don't know". I'm not surprised that she didn't know what anyone else around her was saying or doing because she was, as many of us are these days, very engrossed in our own worlds and oblivious to others. Children are given somewhat of a pass but there was a child that was clearly old enough to know better hanging out with his friends that raced to the front of the room and nearly knocked over a disabled woman. Now, granted, he's a kid but give him 5 or 10 years.