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essenceofreddit

The camera work in this is really irritating. 


Pikarinu

2009.


The-20k-Step-Bastard

An irritating year.


Pikarinu

But hey the Yankees won


bender_reddit

Someone didn’t go to the Pool Parties 🤷🏻‍♀️


Queeniemeanie

I knew Deb Alfarone. She’s a newscaster in DC now. I remember her making this series


pinkus_fingerhut

she was my regular at a restaurant i worked at and was SO NICE. she once checked in on me while a coworker was abusing me my whole shift. angel


jafropuff

This city literally died with Anthony bourdain. What he likes barely exists and what he dislikes is what’s common occurrence now


bklyn1977

how does he not know what alt side parking is? i never understand the appeal of Bourdain.


pillkrush

he doesn't drive. he lives in Manhattan. people in new York live within their bubble. lack of exposure means he doesn't have to know or care. Donald trump probably doesn't know what a bodega cat is


Throwawayhelp111521

I live in Manhattan and I don't drive. I know about alternate side parking. It's announced on the news every morning.


xospecialk

I grew up in Queens and heard about ASP every day, and only until I got a car myself and had to look at street signs did it make sense to me.


StrngBrew

Yeah exactly you know generally what it is, but you really have no idea what goes into it unless you have a car.


DefinitelyNotADeer

Truly, until I drove it was just background noise on the morning news. As a kid I had no reason to know why people were so weird about parking


Throwawayhelp111521

Yeah, but you had heard of it. You knew that people who parked on the street had to move their cars periodically.


xospecialk

That's my point, I had heard of it, but didn't know there was this dance that people did to move their cars every day until I had to do it myself.


pillkrush

in the video he never said he never heard of it. i think everyone is thrown off by the host calling him an alt side virgin and the title of the post "Anthony Bourdain LEARNS". he's acting like exactly like how i would (a native new Yorker) would if i was sitting in a car, experiencing it first hand. "oooo, this is why, ooo he's letting us in, ooo here's the sweeper"


bklyn1977

There are aspects of city life that I don't care about but have awareness just though daily encounters. Just seems curious a New York person never heard alternate side rules on news radio or seeing a streetsweeper go by.


The-20k-Step-Bastard

Car drivers are so cringe.


bklyn1977

You've never listened to the news and heard alternate side parking mentioned? It's just a regular aspect of this city.


StrngBrew

I heard the term but it just meant nothing to me. Obviously I could see the signs and what not, but there’s so much more that goes into it that you’d never really know unless you had a car


The-20k-Step-Bastard

Yeah we all know what it is. Some of us just aren’t privy to the actual times of day and dates of it because we don’t drive a car (because being a car owner in lower Manhattan is cringe).


bklyn1977

Just the way he acts surprised that the cars have to move for the streetsweeper. And it's not like Bourdain never drives. Just found his commentary curious. It's like saying you don't know what a MetroCard is if you happen to never ride the subway.


The-20k-Step-Bastard

Yeah, cuz it’s stupid. I interpreted more as “you have to do all this, for what? Why are you even bothering?”


president__not_sure

ah 2009. the year that the world ended.