For no particular reason I walked down Lexington to the Bloomingdales area today and was approached by a young woman who had chosen me, of all the many people on 62nd Street, to ask the following question:
"Are you from around here?"
Seemed fair. I am from the area, so the woman can't be faulted for being perceptive. So I answered in the affirmative.
"Do you know where I could get frozen yogurt?"
I pointed her to a candy and nuts shop that promised "frozen desserts."
"No," she said.
"No?"
"Tasti-d-lite."
"Oh, in that case, you could go to 77th and Lex, or about 70th and 3rd, but there might be one closer."
Without a word, she vanished into the crowd, with that determined look of a woman in search of fake iced cream.
My question is this: What exactly was it about me that made me, of all the people on that block, look like the sort of person who'd know where the nearest Tasti-d-lite was located?
Sunday, July 11, 2004
A d-liteful encounter
Posted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy at Sunday, July 11, 2004
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