People Are SO Kind In The City For The Criminally Insane

One of the joys of having an office in the heart of New York City's Theatre District, on a block with six major theatres (none of which is dark these days), is battling with the crowds on matinee days. There is almost no available space on the sidewalk for people to get past the queues of theatre-goers. As an aside, here's a useless piece of information: there are up to 8592 ticket holders for theatres on this block alone.

I love the fact that there are so many people supporting Broadway, however, some of them should never have been given day-release, or care-in-the-community. Yesterday, as I left my building at 1.30pm to go an appointment, I had to force my way onto the street saying, "Excuse me; thank you very much" about a dozen times. One well-dressed gentleman in his sixties was determined not to let me through, and took every measure he could to prevent my getting by, to the point that we were both off the sidewalk and on the road surface itself, as he continued to obstruct my passage. When I eventually got past him he tripped me up! Perhaps he misunderstood the "break a leg" saying.