I am reading a book. And I want to know if it is really like this in NJ.

A splot of some noxious substance sliding down the front of my door
caught my eye. I was pretty sure it wasn't tapioca. I gagged, closed the
door, and locked and chained it. Wonderful. Two days on the job and a
world-class psycho had just jerked off on my door.

Things like this had never happened to me when I'd worked for E.E.
Martin. Once a street person had urinated on my foot, and every now and
then a man would drop his pants in the train station, but these were
things you expected when you worked in Newark. I'd learned not to take
them personally. This business with Ramirez was a whole other matter.
This was very scary.


--
Is that your nose, or are you eatting a banana? -Jimmy Durante

hahabogus wrote:
> I am reading a book. And I want to know if it is really like this in
> NJ.

You know better than that.

nancy

"Nancy Young" > wrote in news:Wctum.361722$bU2.244743
@newsfe29.ams2 on Sep Wed 2009 12:49 pm

> hahabogus wrote:
>> I am reading a book. And I want to know if it is really like this in
>> NJ.
>
> You know better than that.
>
> nancy
>

Does that mean it is Worse???

The book is One for the money by Janet Evanovich

A kinda dumb blonde does private eye stuff...quite funny. But she isn't a blonde.

--
Is that your nose, or are you eatting a banana? -Jimmy Durante

hahabogus wrote:

> The book is One for the money by Janet Evanovich
>
> A kinda dumb blonde does private eye stuff...quite funny. But she
> isn't a blonde.

I'm more a fan of Sue Grafton and Sara Paretski as far as female
detective novels go.

nancy

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:44:37 -0400, "Nancy Young"
> wrote:

>hahabogus wrote:
>
>> The book is One for the money by Janet Evanovich
>>
>> A kinda dumb blonde does private eye stuff...quite funny. But she
>> isn't a blonde.
>
>I'm more a fan of Sue Grafton and Sara Paretski as far as female
>detective novels go.
>
>nancy

Check out Margaret Maron, Faye Kellerman and J. A. Jance.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

hahabogus wrote:
>
> Rhonda Anderson > wrote in
> .5 on Sep Thu 2009
> 08:48 am
>
> >
> > They would be good plane reading. I like to have a laugh now and
> > again, and a little bit of romance, and these fill the bill for me.
> >
> >
>
> And they are food related...See below
>
> When you live in Jersey a beach isn't enough. People have energy in Jersey. They need things to do.
> They need a beach with a boardwalk. And the boardwalk has to be filled with rides and games and
> crappy food. Add some miniature golf. Throw in a bunch of stores selling T-shirts with offensive
> pictures. Life doesn't get much better than this.
>
> And the best part is the smell. I've been told there are places where the ocean smells wild and
> briny. In Jersey the ocean smells of coconut-scented suntan lotion and Italian sausage smothered
> in fried onions and peppers. It smells like deep-fried zeppoles and chili hot dogs. The scent is
> intoxicating and exotic as it expands in the heat rising from crowds of sun-baked bodies strolling
> the boardwalk.
>
>

LOL! Describes the old Asbury Park/Atlantic City seasides to a T. But
the author forgot the fries/chips! And the cotton candy. And the frozen
custard. And the salt water taffy....