This Has Been a Metropolitan Diary Moment

Sunday afternoon, the M72 bus after a few hours of sale shopping. We're stopped at the corner of 66th and Fifth, waiting for the light to change, to turn into the park, homeward. On the opposite corner, a group of five nuns wait for the light to change as well. I didn't know there were young American nuns anymore, but there they are, in their long black-and-white habits, laughing, having fun on their afternoon off. I look down at my black-and-white Barneys bags; my afternoon off cost me $159.