It's a simple fish out of water show with a grumpy big city doc forced to care for the eccentric people of a small village.
Turning off the lights has drawn grumpy crowds to city council meetings, stirred jealousy among neighborhoods and neighbors, and set off conversations about crime.
I first got to know certain New York streets and neighborhoods from my espresso-scouting missions: West 20th Street, for example (Café Grumpy), or Alphabet City (the immortal Ninth Street Espresso).
Like Tom's Restaurant, the Upper West Side diner whose exterior stood in for Monk's Cafe on "Seinfeld," or Magnolia Bakery, where Carrie and Miranda feasted on cupcakes on "Sex and the City," Café Grumpy has turned into a pilgrimage site for those who identify with the show's confused characters.
The lazy stereotype of this city as a grumpy backwater at the end of a railway line, redeemed only by Philip Larkin and the Housemartins, is self-evidently wrong.
Some of them are also opening stores in the city, and Cafe Grumpy and even Abraço plan to start roasting soon.
According to bendygandhi: "You can be anything you want in London and no-one will bat an eyelid... London is a dirty, old, beauty of a city and its grumpy, mixed up and open inhabitants make it great".
The grumpy, truculent manner of many city residents is also intact, and still has its perfect expression in their snarl of an accent.Near Tiananmen, I came across a group of middle-aged men in shorts seeking refuge from the clammy heat in the shade of some trees.
If Olympic competitions mimick these training grounds, participants could easily participate without the added city dangers (cars, grumpy old people, police, etc).. Probably most famous for the Casino Royale chase scene, Parkour possesses the perfect blend of skill and excitement to reawaken bored Olympic viewers.
The more one-night stands the girls on "Sex and the City" have, the grumpier they get.
