The Occasional Odd Crop: 'Why do we have to fight all the time?'

Where: 48th Street and 10th Avenue, Hell's Kitchen, New York City

When: Oct. 14, 2007

The conversation:

He: Why do we have to fight all the time?

She: 'Cause I'm always catchin' you in bullshit! You gonna make me go down the list?

Me (in my head as I walk away): Buddy, you do *not* want her going down that list.

More New York couples at my Flickr site.

Spoken words in New York

In the Times Square subway station

Me: Sir, is this train going to Grand Central?

Transit cop: Only for you.

At Azuri Cafe, a Hell's Kitchen hole in the wall with amazing Middle Eastern food

Dani: That was the best shish kebab I've ever had.

Azuri proprietor (without cracking a smile): I know.

Near Tiffany & Co. on Fifth Avenue

Little boy: Do they have candy?

Middle-aged guy: Nah, they don't have any candy in there, kid. Eight floors of no candy.

The Occasional Odd Crop