METROPOLITAN DIARY
Sorry missed yesterday!
Luggage Check
Dear Diary:
Several years ago, I was walking around Manhattan after visiting my niece in Brooklyn. I planned to visit the Metropolitan Museum and then call a taxicab to take me to La Guardia for my return trip home to South Florida.
When I got to the museum, I was told I could not check my luggage. I decided to return to a nearby jewelry store where I had stopped earlier and ask whether they could hold it. Happily for me, they agreed.
On my way back to the Met, I tripped and fell on the sidewalk. A bystander called an ambulance.
When it arrived, the EMTs asked if I had anything besides my pocketbook to take to the hospital. I told them my luggage was at a store a few blocks away.
They drove me there, walked in, asked for my luggage and loaded it in the ambulance. The shopkeeper, amazed, watched as I drove off to the hospital.
— Billie Grover
((MY New York!))
Make Way
Dear Diary:
I was walking in Morningside Park when I saw a mama duck and her ducklings heading out of the park. I tried to get her to go back but she wouldn’t.
A woman called out and said the ducks were headed for Central Park.
Really? I asked. How is she going to get there?
We’re going to help, the woman said.
And we did. Seven of us, all strangers, guided the duck and her ducklings through the street, stopping traffic, picking babies up onto the curb and following closely to make sure they all got there safely.
When we got to Central Park, all the babies intact, they emerged from the bushes and hopped in the water. We all cheered. It was so energizing. We parted ways, and I walked home with a huge smile on my face.
The highlight was a truck driver who cursed at us when we stopped traffic, only to let out a gasp when he saw the ducks.
“Oh my God,” he yelled. “They’re so cute.”
— Linda Herskovic
MAKE way for Ducklings!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Way_for_Ducklings
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/nyregion/metropolitan-diary.html
