What's the Big Deal?

I don't quite understand it, but New Yorkers love their Deli's. Long aisles of food sitting on warming trays waiting for you to serve yourself.

You would think that because these are the hot-spots they would offer the most bang for your buck. Wrong! These self-serve purveyors of semi-warm semi-good food are ridiculously expensive. Today, thinking I would run get a fast, nutritious, inexpensive lunch, I patronized one of our local deli's. My lunch consisted of a scoop of cottage cheese, four slices of pineapple, an apple, a piece of garlic bread and a diet coke. This light fare cost me $9.00! I can buy better food for a better price at the airport or Disneyland!

Never again!

Today's Lexicon

It has been debated, challenged and questioned. Here is the answer:

Yeah - (yě'ə, yā'ə, yā'ə) Pronunciation Key adv. Informal Yes. [Variant of yea.]
Origin: 1900–1905

Yea - (yā) adv. Origin: bef. 900
1. yes (used in affirmation or assent).
2. indeed: Yea, and he did come.
3. not only this but even: a good, yea, a noble man. –noun
4. an affirmation; an affirmative reply or vote.
5. a person who votes in the affirmative. Indeed; truly: They have spoken, yea shouted
their reply.

Yay!- (yā) interj. Used as an exclamation of pleasure, approval, elation, or victory

Welcome to New York....Thank You for the Inconvienience

I returned to New York a little over a week ago. Within moments of stepping foot off the plane I heard an announcement that was quintessentially New York. Just prior to disembarking the plane we, the passengers, were directed to claim our baggage at carousel number 1. Upon arrival at said carousel we were greeted with the following announcement.

"Passengers of flight 210 with service from Long Beach, your baggage claim has been changed to carousel number 4. Please proceed to carousel number 4....Thank you for the inconvienence."