Thanks Alex, I’ll take "Idiotic Sex and the City Questions" for $100

Why is it that every Australian girl between the age 18 and 45 feels compelled to ask me questions about “Sex and the City”? 

·         Is New York really like that

·         Do all the chicks drink Cosmo’s at lunch

·         What is with their outfits, do you guys really dress like that

Since I moved 9,935 miles away from New York City I thought I would be sufficiently insulated from the Sex and the City nonsense which would infiltrate NYC every time a new season would come out, or even worse, a feature length movie. 

Now, Giuliani was the best mayor New York City has ever seen, he crippled the mob and replaced piles of trash on the streets with piles of tourist cash in the revitalized 42^nd street area & Times Square.

All this progress didn’t come without a price tag.  What started to unfold halfway through his tenure didn’t seem to rear its ugly head until Rudy was well out of office and Bloomberg was at the helm.  What I am referring to are the droves of foreign and domestic tourists who flock to our fair city eager get a glimpse of typical location shots the show used such as Central Park or the Chrysler Building, apparently Carrie Bradshaw had a thing for Big and he of course lived in the Chrysler Building. 

Now I spent 2-3 years working in the Chrysler Building on the 28^th and 31^st floors and didn’t run into Chris Noth once…  Guess who I did run into though, packs of girls that were mid 20’s to late 30’s from Ohio, Indiana, or Sydney (you should read that as “enter any non-relevant place in the world here…”) with cameras in hand snapping pics of the lobby and reminiscing with each other about how in season 4 episode 7 Carrie stood in this exact spot! 

What’s news to me was that a highlight for female tourist in the aforementioned demographic is the “Sex and the City” tour which is a $45 dollar drop in the bucket…  Seriously?  You know what I didn’t do when I arrived in Sydney (and still haven’t), I didn’t ask where Neo - aka Mr. Anderson hung out just because they filmed The Matrix trilogy here.  I could care less, it’s a movie.

I have run into plenty of high profile people in New York including athletes, actors and actresses.  One memory that stands out was when  I was waiting at the light to change at 42^nd and Lex, I looked to my right and noticed Harrison Ford was standing right next to me.  I did a quick double take, confirmed it was him, he caught me do that so I just gave him the simple head nod of acknowledgement.  Once the lights turned I continued on with my business and easily beat him across the street as he was hobbling around like he was still on the Regarding Henry movie set; post head shot…    

Seeing Indiana Jones right next to you is pretty cool, taking a picture of the stoop located at 238 East 72nd Street is a whole other thing all together…  Yeah yeah, that’s the real address girls; I just did your research for you and saved you $45 on the tour! 

Thank me later with a beer at the pub, I’ll be the guy with the funny accent making smug remarks about Sarah Jessica Parker and the Melbourne Cup Horse Race thats coming up next week…