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I was schlepping down to the decent bagel shop two blocks away. The one on my block is awful, and the really good one is twenty blocks away. Well worth the mile walk, but lately there's been a line of thirty-somethings around the block. So, the decent bagel is good enough.
In the middle of a block I noticed a very nice looking coffee table on the sidewalk, next to a pile of trash bags. Nothing unusual - in Manhattan you will often see almost-new items casually discarded for an upgrade. The coffee table caught my attention because of its pristine marble top. Whatever.
On the way back, ten minutes later, the table was gone, and several people were talking in an agitated fashion. One was holding a bedframe. The other one said beligerantly, "we need to look at the security footage!"
Heh.