When folks are chatting in a group, let's say someone starts a joke by saying something funny and everyone laughs. If another member wants to add to the humour or chip in, they say 'wait!' or 'but wait!' e.g. 'wait! She was also the one that was late for the after-party' ah haa ha haa hahaa.. etc.
Very mixed feelings about
Pet shops (of which there are very many) sometimes feature puppies or kittens in the window. Very sweet to watch tumbling around in the shredded paper.
Advanced society
There is a hardcore cyclist presence in Manhattan and especially Brooklyn. An undergoundy group called times-up organise all kinds of free events from moonlit park rides to fountain rides, involving jumping in public watery areas in the heat and most inspiring of all to me: on a Thursday night you can take your bike to a free drop-in workshop and fix it/ change it/ service it using tools and kit provided there, helped along by an expert volunteer cyclist.
Salmoning
Cyclists who cycle the wrong way along NY streets/avenues which are mostly one-way. They irritated me a lot at first but now I just steer around them and that's that.
High temperatures
The first milks I bought here, I enjoyed the creamy taste of and felt fortunate in a shoulder-shrugging way at just how long the large carton lasted in the fridge (well over 10 days!) But then I always did like the taste of UHT milk when camping - which doesn't need refrigeration and lasts and lasts because the bugs/bug-supporting stuffs in the milk have been blown into high heaven by ultra high temperatures. And unsurprisingly this treatment destroys the enyzmes and some of the other good things in the milk.
So I read on the packaging of even the organic milks here that they are 'ultra-pasteurized'. And on the web I learn that UHT = ultra-pasteurized. This suits the retailers/providers who can manage their supplies better but makes for a lower quality product. So far I have only found one store in Manhattan (Food Emporium - an expensive chain) which carries a non-UHT milk, which happens to be organic too. Which makes me feel like I'm getting something terribly earthy when it is just basic pasteurised stuff (60oC treatment) normal to the U.K stores.
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