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Which Makes the Pareto Principle Work

Runner: The top 20% of New Yorkers couldn't exist without the…
Hobo (interrupting): The top 20% of New Yorkers suck.

–80th & Columbus

Overheard by: 20 percenter

  • Posted on August 4, 2008
  • Default, Hobos, Insults, Only in New York, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center
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