Overheard in an Imaginary New York City: A Fictional Eavesdropper's Report

 ---"I do not invite anyone to parties I host if I ever  hear a rumor that they've snorted cocaine on even one total  occasion in their entire life. I am determined to be one very rare party host here who is NOT  soft on cocaine."

---"I am always amazed when I learn that an indoor plant I see inside a shopping mall is not plastic."

---"If your taxi driver upon request drops you off in front of a house of prostitution he knows about, does that make him an accomplice in human trafficking? And if so, should NYPD hire undercover officers to pose as customers of that taxi driver and ask him to drop them off at the whorehouse that's his personal favorite when he's  off-duty?"

---"Why are you astonished that the number of taxi drivers here who are biological females is so tiny that you almost never see them? Being a taxi driver here is synonymous with getting ambushed by insults and epithets and getting robbed on a year-round basis. How many ladies would want to invite that kind of abuse into their lives, when most of them are already getting verbally and physically  abused off-duty by their boyfriend or husband on a year-round basis."

---"With black politicians like our Mayor, pay close attention to whether he ever denounces cocaine with convincing indignation  in his televised  speeches. If he doesn't attack the local  'Cocaine Community', as they often  call themselves these days, this means  our Mayor is probably an off- duty snorter. It also means that if you give lie- detector tests to all of the known cocaine dealers in Manhattan  and ask each of them if our Mayor is a client of theirs, at least one of those cocaine dealers will fail that lie detector test when he replies with a 'no'."