Is that the World Trade Center

This morning while walking Riley to Wash Sq Park I was stopped by a tourist. Short, squatty man, round as a beach ball with a camera slung over his neck and the prerequisite white socks. (Do they hand these socks out at Newark??) Anyway, we are waiting at 6th Ave & 8th St to cross and he points down 6th Ave towards some office buildings and says:
Tourist: Is that the World Trade Center
Me: Uh, no those don't exist anymore (Maybe you saw it on the news back in 2001 - it was kinda a big deal)
Tourist: Oh, they haven't rebuilt them yet.

Now, I know he is a tourist so he isn't preevy to the local news but "Jeez, dude....really?" Those idiots (developers, builders, Port Authority and the victims families could agree on the color of the sky)

We go to the park and there is the sweetest little dog named Snickers. Odd looking dog with one eye circled in brown and the other just white. However, the pink around the white eye ended up making ole Snicker looked deformed or at the very least like he had pink eye. Anyway, I digress...

We are walking home from the park down 4th St or no what the heck street is that?? Anway.....and this guys cuts across in front of us and I look and realize he has a goat/lamb in a plastic bag. Skinned, bloody, whole with head and eyes and everything in a plastic clear bag slung over his shoulder and just waiting to be butchered. GROSS. Now I'm not naive I know my meat comes from live animals. But I prefer to think that they are just shrink wrapped and meat in the store not a live animal - happy and frolicking in the fields until it is shot in the head.

Happy Thursday!