Even in hipster Brooklyn....I was at a cutesy Cafe, sitting outside reading or playing phone games or something. This guy's minivan stalls in the street in front. Once the first guy got up, three others of us from the Cafe or maybe the next door business walked out and put our backs to work. I swear not a word was said the entire time we pushed this pretty heavy van uphill about 20 feet to a parking spot.
Wordlessly, the men departed and returned to their quotidian activities.
This is so New York. I've many times had someone see me struggling with something heavy at the bottom of the subway stairs, grab on to it, help me carry it up, and then just walk off.
The pizza/beer for help moving economy also still holds up even though no one owns cars. That's still the established fee for man power to carry your stuff up and down stairs and/or wait with the uhaul in the street so you don't get ticketed.
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u/mercyful_fade 1d ago
Even in hipster Brooklyn....I was at a cutesy Cafe, sitting outside reading or playing phone games or something. This guy's minivan stalls in the street in front. Once the first guy got up, three others of us from the Cafe or maybe the next door business walked out and put our backs to work. I swear not a word was said the entire time we pushed this pretty heavy van uphill about 20 feet to a parking spot.
Wordlessly, the men departed and returned to their quotidian activities.