EVERYBODY’S AN EXPERT.

EVERYBODY’S AN EXPERT. We lived on 14th Street in the 1970’s, a time when New York City street life was grittier than it is today. It was also a time when more husbands were staying home to raise their children. One such husband lived in our apartment building and took care of their toddler while his wife worked. He told us that he was always surprised by the number of suggestions that people on the street offered to him when he took his little girl out in her stroller. He said that almost every “wino” (as “homeless people” were referred to then) had a suggestion for him (for example, either “take off her coat” or “put on her coat”.) He thought it was because he was not a mother and needed guidance.