The blind fellow was at the IHOP last night with his father, and I listened as they discussed geography, particularly the states that make up the Great Plains, the Sunbelt, and the original thirteen colonies. Then he asked his dad about New York City, saying he’d heard they have no alleys there and that the people are rude. “Rudest sons of bitches on the face of this earth,” his father said. “It’s crammed full of rude people and rich foreigners—Jews, Arabs, Japs—and they make it so you can’t afford to shit.”
