New York City Writers Forum What was one of the most bizar..

All of us who have lived here have had at least one bizarre experience in NYC - be it on a subway car, on the street, in an outdoor restaurant...in your own home.

What's one that has happened to you - and would you consider writing about it? Have you already? Or has something really inspired you to write a "what if" about a certain incident?
If you have, please link to it here, I'd love to read it.

I need to really write something about NYC myself...I'm working on something right now, but having trouble giving it shape.

Robert Luciano wrote a great piece on the first time smoking grass called "First Tokes". - I have to re-read it; I think it's based in NYC - Queens.

NYC is a place like no other. So naturally some weird events are going to take place. It's funny that you put that picture of a crackhead up because I was just about to mention one.

I was on the "R" or was it the "F"....no it was on the "A" and there was this crackhead ranting in unintelligible speech for about 10 subway stops. That's nothing new it happens in NYC every day. The strange part of it was how once in a while you would hear certain key words such as;

"Socrates"
"Hitler"
"Plato"
"Shakespear"
"Buddha"
"Sun Tzu"
"Krishnamurti"
"Lennon"

Wierd...

Thx for the mention. That "what if" doesn't sound bad at all. I might write about it.

I would say the most bizarre thing I ever saw on the subway was this homeless man walked on, laid down a few sheets of newspaper and proceeded to take a s**t right there. After he was done, he rolled up the newspaper, got off the next stop and tossed it in the garbage. This happened on the R train sometime in 1987, I think it was. This is definitely the most bizarre thing I ever saw, hands down....and lord knows there were MANY bizarre things one sees living in NYC....

Holy s**t...and I thought people in my part of the woods were crazy. LOL.

Hawksmoor...From The Bleed.

I don't live in New York, but I was there briefly (Like one week. Then I got claustrophobic and headed back to Oklahoma) The first day I got there, I took a cab to my hotel. I'd decided to get off about three blocks from it though, so I could walk in the city I'd dreamed of living in since I was five. As soon as I took my first step onto the sidewalk, I was puked on by a frigin drunk. Who then decided he'd take a nap mid sidewalk, during what seemed to be rush hour. But that's not it. I got paid 30 bucks because I opened a door for an elderly lady, who was weighted down with groceries. And then ridiculed and laughed at for hours at a Brooklyn pizza place because. "I talk funny."

lol rofl dawn great now i'm never going 2 NYC (i'm from Pennsylvania no i don't live in hicksville i live in a suburb that is getting very very very populated they even almost put in a race track right next 2 the local middle school and they putting in a casino in a city thats 10 miles away from me) they're going 2 think i speak weird and laugh at me but at least i kno how 2 handle a city (i live near philly like a lil over an hour away) thats a plus :D lol wish me luck

-Dawn-

ew yuck sick julian man the more i read the more i don't wanna live in NYC :P

-Dawn-

a homeless man asked me to marry him... no he really did on the 4 train. got down on his knee and everything in front of everyone! He was doing impressions for change and telling some of the girls that they were pretty not harrassing them or anything just paying them compliments. he was really nice not creepy as some can be.. he was telling everyone how his wife died a year ago and he and his kids lived in a shelter and was saying that he had no money but he was good fun and he was looking for a date jokingly... then some folks got off the train and he "spotted" me told the whole car that i was stunning got down on his knee and asked me to marry him... it was bizarre

I haven't lived in NY for ten years but I was born and raised there. Back in the Eighties when I was in college I got on the 2 train at Flatbush. There was only three people in the car: me, a young White chick and a homeless man who was asleep. Since he didn't smell too bad I didn't pay him any mind. Until he started jerking off. I was gonna look away really quickly but he got up, walked over to the White chick and started jerking off in her face. I think she was too terrified to move. I felt so bad for her, but the minute that train hit the station I was outta there and onto the next car. It was such an Only In New York story that I put it in my novel.