A Restaurant That’s ‘Too Sit-Downy’

Dear Diary:

I’m standing with my boyfriend on the street outside the Brooklyn Academy of Music discussing where we might go to eat pre-opera.

A young couple comes up next to us.

He: punkish, pinkish hair.

She: a sheer white blouse with a black bra, garter belt, thigh-high boots and a leather skirt that is about the size of a dish towel.

Pointing to a busy bistro right across the street, she says: “I don´t think so. It looks too sit-downy to me.”

Her companion nods his head in agreement. “Way too sit-downy for me too.” They walk the other way.

“Too sit-downy?” I ask my boyfriend. He shakes his head. What does that mean? Is it bad?

We eat somewhere else. We don’t understand the opera either.

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