That moment when New York City realized that it doesn't have to resort to clogging its curbs and sidewalks with loose bags of trash and can instead rely on sophisticated technology: Trash cans
Car brain in the comment thread...
Trash bags take up exactly as much space as a trash bag for exactly as long as it is on the sidewalk. Trash cans take up more than their maximum capacity regardless of how full they are, 24 hours a day.
And the tweeter's reply...
Despite having the best public transit system in America, New York City has 3 million on-street parking spaces, more than 95% of which are free, and your concern is… trash cans taking up too much space? Sorry, but if you love the rats so much, why don't you marry one?
The word 'bodega' makes me so irrationally angry.
You are not so special you need your own word for convenience store. Fuck you, you stupid city.
We need to have special subtypes of convenience store. E.g. I stand by the need to distinguish Spätkaufen from lesser convenience stores. :GDR-emblem:
New Yorkers :solidarity: Foreigners in Japan
I lived in NYC for a while. A bodega is not a convenience store. Convenience stores by definition are chain stores. Bodegas tend to be family run and tend to be funky because of that.
'A bodega is a small owner-operated convenience store '
:guts-rage: :guts-rage: :guts-rage:
nothing will calm my fury. nothing
Commoditized 7-11-like shit is not a bodega. But - yes - some people still call bodegas convenience stores because bodegas are basically non-existent in most of the US.
this isn't a gotcha the word bodega just makes me angry
there is no debate here, only rage
All the convenience stores around me are owned by mom and pop tyrants, the only difference is that they let Shell sell gas in the parking lot.
How? All the convenience stores around me are small businesses.
in new york, things are special because new yorkers believe they are. i mean, it's not like anywhere else in north america has a completely unique, owner-operated store selling a weird variety of convenience items and egg sandwiches. such a thing can only have ever happened in new york, where the magic of civilization happens. once you leave the boroughs, it's all just chains.
Where did you get that definition from?
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They look like the kind of stores that operate all over my town, all family run and filled with everything. Looks like it started from Puerto Rican immigrants and that checks out.
Where I was we called it a corner store and it was the only place white people were treated like potential shoplifters. So it had that going for it at least.