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Friday, Jun 13, 2003
Don't Swing A Cat Here
Part of the plerasure of life in this city is the richness of the signage, particularly of the handwritten sort. A local halal snack bar, -- popular with Pakistani cab drivers -- on Houston near Avenue A, advertises fare priced by "plate" or "bowel" -ful. I will eat there soonish.
My favorite sign is not handwritten but carefully typed out. In the bathroom of a shiatsu massage place in the East Village is an idiosyncratic variant of a sign all bathrooms in NYC are legally obliged to display. It reads:
Empoyee Must Wash Your HandsNot funny, you say? Well it's in a bathroom with no sink in it, just a urinal. There's not enough room there to turn around, let alone have the employee wash your hands there. They do great massages, however.