I experienced something very strange last week. A college classmate and I were finishing a thought outside the hotel where I was staying. Our conversation began at dinner and continued as we walked down Lexington Avenue. We stopped to wrap things up outside the Gramercy Park Hotel. It was early evening and the smart set was just getting started.
If you're not familiar with this part of Manhattan, the hotel offers a hip bar that attracts a young, progressive, crowd. Out of the door came a young woman, no more than recent college age. Apparently the noise in the bar was too much as she was rapt in conversation on her cell phone. She was a respectable distance from us, so we didn't think anything of her… until she suddenly broke away from her phone, stepped toward us, and plaintively asked if either of us had a cigarette.
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