If you live in a big city like New York, listen to the Police.....

[DFW]

[cwydro]

1. Well done!

[The Magistrate]

2. Caught Me, Sir

Was expecting a public service statement. Nicely done.

[DFW]

3. Well, if you allow a certain stretching of the term "public service statement"

You could still squeeze it into the category.

[The Magistrate]

4. That Would Go Past Gossmer, Sir

And if you are going to cite songs by that band, try their best, like 'King of Pain'....

[DFW]

5. I wasn't searching for anything deeper than an appropriate play on words

Our constabulary nationwide has indulged in enough mayhem in the last decade to avoid suggesting to them that a song entitled "King of Pain" is a title they need to be taking to heart.

[The Magistrate]

7. It's A Good Song, Sir

Nothing to do with policing....

[DFW]

8. I know. I studied the lyrics.

For that matter, "Don't Stand So Close To Me" had nothing to do with a virus, either.

I have been to known to take license with song titles before. Case in point:

[HarlanPepper]

6. This whole catastrophe

Is a ringing endorsement for not living in high population density mega cities like NYC.

[DFW]

9. There will always be those who don't want to live anywhere else

My elder daughter, since she was 6 or 7, was always fascinated by NYC when we visited my grandfather, who was born and grew up there. She always had a fantasy about living there, and now she has for over ten years. Even with all that has happened, she says she doesn't want to live anywhere else, and she grew up here in a small town in the German Rheinland.

If Manhattan is subjected to a forced evacuation, she'll leave, of course. My brother is still in the Langley area in Virginia and has a house close to Great Falls, and my sister lives in a rural part of New Jersey. With her German passport, she will always be allowed to return here as well. But if she has her choice, she will remain in midtown Manhattan. Now that her job has evaporated, she has joined one of the big volunteer groups delivering food to those who are completely immobilized. She knows it puts her in a certain danger, but she must have gotten some of my wife's DNA (my wife was a social worker all her life).