Seriously, during the summer (when it is warmer and the beaches are drawing more people to The Park) Bert's Red Apple Market in Madison Park is the place!
I used to live on 43rd Avenue East and I shopped regularly at Bert's. It never ceased to amaze me how cruisey it was, even before 8:00am. Singles (and some not-so-singles posing as singles...my personal experience) peering into shopping baskets, looking for something with which to start a conversation: "Is all that breakfast for one?"
The florist got a lot of this action. How is easy it to meet a girl with buckets and buckets of flowers available? Men would see a woman they fancied, go outside and pluck a rose from any one of a hundred buckets and make his move: "This buds for you."
These scenes reminded me of the great in-store pick-up line scene from My Blue Heaven:
Vinnie: You know, it's dangerous for you to be here in the frozen food section.
Shaldeen: Why is that?
Vinnie: Because you could melt all this stuff.
So great!
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