Ystäväni antoi tänään ihanan linkkivinkin, jonka pistän tietenkin heti jakoon. The New York Times -lehden kollektiiviseen kaupunkipäiväkirjaan Metropolitan Diary voi lähettää julkaistavaksi New Yorkissa tapahtuneita sattumuksia ja ajatuksia. Isoon kaupunkiin (ja kai pienempäänkin) mahtuu kaikenlaista hauskaa ja herkkääkin.
Meikäläistä nauratti esimerkiksi tämä seuraava (itsekin pidän Twixeistä):
DEAR DIARY:
My son, as part of a school project for first graders at Public School 199 in Manhattan, has taken to writing famous people and companies in search of getting a letter back in the mail. Every day, when he gets home, he diligently checks the mail for replies to his letters, many of which have gone unanswered. (Are you reading this, Nick Swisher and Mayor Bloomberg?)
In July, however, he received a large package from the W. P. & R. S. Mars Company, to which he had written to get the recipe for Twix, his favorite confection. In the box was a handwritten letter:
“Dear Bryce,
Thanks so much for your letter. We are not the Mars Candy Company. We are a Midwestern supplier of industrial equipment. So, I am sorry that we can’t tell you how Twix are made. However, we can send you some. Hope they make it to New York in one piece.”
In the box, along with the handwritten note, were two super-size Twix bars, a pizza cutter and a key chain.
I realized two things: First, to be more careful when looking up addresses on the Internet, and second, that the kindness of strangers (especially in the Midwest) still exists.
Barry Chung
Sympaattisia tarinoita lisää täällä:
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/newyorkandregion/columns/metropolitandiary/
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