I went to the bodega across the street this morning, and the woman in front of me in line spent about 15 minutes trying to convince the man behind the counter to give her a book of 10-cent matched for free. "There's money moving up here," she said at one point, "And being nice to your customers is what will keep them coming back." She then went on about her friend from Armenia or Turkey or wherever that would always borrow her money but then he moved away after Sept. 11.
As soon as she left the man told me she does this every day. That for awhile he gave them to her for free but then he started charging. I felt like I was back in the Village for a minute -- Brewster Village, not the East Village.
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