WTF Moment

Last week after meeting my friends Brian and Todd out at the Beauty Bar where we caught a listening party for the newly remixed version of Herb Alpert's classic "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" we walked on down to the East Village. First Todd had to buy a bucket of chicken. While Brian and I patiently waited outside on the corner for him, along came this major WTF moment: someone was moving one of those prefab-houses down 2nd Ave.!!!!

Really, WTF!!!!

Questions were raised immediately. First of all, who would have the guts, or be stupid enough to drive this oversize, wide-load through the middle of Manhattan? Pure insanity!!! Then we wondered where this house was going to be planted. Could it have been someone's construction office? I thought, highly unlikely. It had a porch! Construction offices are usually one of those mobile homes up on blocks, never anything fancy. This was definitely a house, someone's new home!

Just as we thought we had digested the thought of this unusual sight, what happens? There amongst all the swarms of taxi-cabs and delivery trucks comes another prefab!!! Could there be a new mobile home park here in NYC? I was trying to picture one being created in Battery Park. All the tourists coming back from the Statue of Liberty will be on Manhattan-bound ferries and the first thing they'll see will be rows and rows of prefab houses.