Shock Culture Reverse

When you emerge from Penn Station or the heavily used subway entrance on Times Square just around the corner from my office in the morning, you almost always encounter one or more people offering one of two free newspapers, Metro or AM New York. I often walk right by them because I already have a paper and possibly other reading matter.

This morning, a young man handing out AM New York had a novel approach.

"It's got words in it," he told me.

I still didn't take the paper, but I had to laugh.