New York New York

I recently moved from NY to CA. Here I admit there is a lot of things different. Laws, clothes and just the way people are. However there was something I never saw before. See my company employs college grads as engineers and professionals. They also have these high school kids who are game testers. So I am at the cafeteria when I over hear a conversation between "the NY guy" and his set of CA groupie high school girls. They were like all wowed about, what's NY like, Do you get beat up everyday?, Do you know P-Diddy? I thought this was funny enough. What were even funnier were the answers. "Man NY is way different. We dress hella different, I mean take dudes for example. They got the man bag." Now at this point I was like, he must not realize that, that exists here. I mean messenger bags are pretty much common everywhere but no it got better. "You know like the little purses that ladies put their dogs in, dudes be wearin that, its like hella gay man. I won't do that." He then preceeded to walk ever so gracefully in a re-enacting manor with his invisible bag, then said again, "Mad gay son." Keep in mind this kid was wearing full out Kanye West style clothes with the Kangal hat. I was starting to question if this story was of his own personal authentic NY habits. I wanted to say something, and just shoot down the kids self esteem. He was a god in the eyes of his groupies and I was in the position to strike. But I didn't. I imagined a kid committing suicide with the audio from Carrie "They're all gonna laugh at you" swirling around him while he is weeping trying to find a way to end it all. So yeah I just let it go. But he heard me laughing I think when the groupies left when I told my roommate (also from NY) of how in all the years we had lived there, never did we see anything similar. So I got my glory, if you can call it that.