The scene: Riding the subway home on Halloween night...packed from 8th avenue on. People in elaborate and disparate costumes, in high spirits. I (miraculously) get a seat, and am filled with the warm and fuzzy feeling one gets from being in the midst of a New York crowd on a holiday.
A huge group of teenagers gets on at Union Square and starts shouting unintelligable nonsense at another group of teenagers. Typical. I am reading, and only look up when the shouting reaches a zenith- one teenager, dressed as a pirate, launches himself at another teenager, half a car away, dressed as a giant baby. They start throwing punches at each other. A guy in a huge foam gingerbread man outfit gets involved, but he is clearly drunk and impeded by his huge head, so he doesn't do much for the fight. Zombies and sexy schoolgirls get into the brawl, and it becomes a melee of violent silliness.
Why would I live anywhere else?
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