A note to city dwellers

I know that there’s a certain cosmopolitan excitement that comes from living in a big city with millions of people, thousands of great coffee bars and hundreds of high-end shoe stores.

However, I must point out to my fellow female urban dwellers a very harsh fact that I don’t think they realize:

Sex and the City was filmed on a closed set.

That’s right. No baby prams, no uneven pavements, no construction debris, no homeless people and their assorted pity pets.

The foursome of New York tarts could blissfully and safely walk four-abreast along what would otherwise be crowded streets, and never have to worry about slipping into single-file to avoid oncoming pedestrians as they went. Any mobile extras were scripted to walk in certain places at certain times to never knock the tottering tarts off their 6-inch stilettos.

In the real world, however, this is not possible. So I would very much appreciate that SATC wannabes please refrain from reenacting any scene that involves walking with your girl-gaggle. Crowded, dusty, uneven, torn-up streets are no place for you to live out your shoe fantasy, when other people are just rushing around to go to the doctor or buy some tomatoes.

That is all.