OUR TOP 10 LISTS

10. ANYTHING

It's street food. A full-on restaurant quality meal right in your hand. I've had Korean BBQ. I've had grilled cheese and fries.

I've had delicious falafel sandwiches, BLTs, salads, tacos, shwarmas, and cupcakes. You don't have to sit down. You don't have to tip. You can walk around with your big meal and nobody can get in your way.

Nobody can bring you down! Why is this even a question? EVERYTHING IS MADE BETTER.

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Author: Alida Nugent / The Frenemy

9. Going to lunch with friends

If you are eating outside, you can stare at people more interesting than a friend's constant yammering on her ex-boyfriend's elusive and confusing text messages.

You can look at the guy on roller blades. You can stare deeply into the smoke billowing out of the food truck, because for some reason there is always an unreasonable amount of smoke billowing out of food trucks.

And you can totally space out on how much you love your friend, but how incredibly boring her stories are.

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8. Summer

Summer is hot and gross and my hair blows up like a frizzy nest of lies and I sweat a lot.

I always yearn for the days of summer but only when I think of those lemonade cups that come with the half of a lemon right in there. Those are really delicious.

Why can't I afford to go on vacation? Why didn't I ever save my money like my mom said I should? Why do I have pit stains? OH lol delicious lemonade, you are my respite.

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7. Taking Care of Children

I'm never quite sure what to do with children. Not quite fully formed humans yet, they seem to run on the base emotions of ''overly-excited, unreasonably angry, and needing to urinate.''

Some things please them while some things do not, they are unreasonable monsters that wear cartoon socks and draw pictures of ''dogs'' that do not look like dogs at all.

However, whenever I have children in my care, the easiest way to please them is to get them cotton candy. Children love cotton candy.

They thrive on its spider-web goodness, its sticky siren call. If you give kids cotton candy, they will shut up. What more can you want? Bubbles, probably.

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6. Walking Around New York City

If you don't go to New York City and you don't get a delicious and classic NYC hotdog, given to you by the chubby sausage fingers of a guy who looks like he might smell like male cologne, you're not living. Or you're a vegetarian. In that case, you better be getting a soft pretzel.

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5. Flea Markets

No, lady, I don't want your decorative vase made of rabbit feet and Mardi Gras beads. And maybe I would be more inclined to buy this cat sweatshirt if I was insane, but I'm not quite there yet.

And yes, my girlfriends dragged me to the flea market because they think we need to ''make our Sunday afternoons more productive and less hungover.''

So yes, I'm not TOO happy to be here. But you know what makes me happy? This Italian ice i'm sucking down. If it weren't for this outdoor crazy flea market, I wouldn't be eating this delicious ball of freeze.

So, thanks for that.

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4. Lunch Breaks

Listen, if you're working a 9 to five in a cubicle where the person next to you sips his coffee really loudly all day and your generic button-down shirt has been gathering sweat particles all day, you need your respites.

Lunch break is a sweet break in the middle of the day, and a delicious way to remind yourself that you are a real person who can sit in the sun and be free and not think about e-mails all day.

The last thing you want to do is spend this precious lunch break waiting for a 9 dollar salad in a creepy corporate-filled sandwich bar.

Go outside, get a $2 taco, and spend the rest of your 53 minutes off deciding how easy it would be to go to the airport, buy a ticket to Paris, and never go back to that hellfire office again.

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3. Visiting Foreign Countries

Sure, sure, traveling to other countries is a life-changing experience where you realize that that the world is in fact a huge and exotic.. yawn yawn, I'm hungry.

It's EXPENSIVE. The second you blow off all your money on a plane ticket because you need to ''see the world,'' you begin to realize you have to live on a budget.

This is where street food comes in. It's cheap, it's convenient, and it doesn't blow your travel load right off the bat. Also, doing anything while eating food means that experience is made better, so it's a win-win.

Sure, going to India to see the monuments is a lovely experience on its own. But a girl has to eat, and seeing those monuments while munching on Samosas, aloo tikka, biryani, and Jalebi is just a better time.

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2. Being Outside

You can bet your ass that unless I am happily munching on a hot dog, I am not happy to be outside. There is no air conditioning outside.

There is no trashy reality television outside. There are only rats and itchy grass, fresh garbage, and mosquitoes. However, if you shove a piece of street cart food in my hands, you bet your ass it will be my pacifier and I will shut the hell up.

No more complaints about the humidity! Until I'm done eating, of course.

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1. Being Drunk

There's nothing like a good old fashioned bender. Whether it be after a particularly painful breakup, a relatively bad day at work, or simply an inconvenient Tuesday, drowning your sorrows in the demon rum usually makes any night more joyous.

However, nothing puts the cherry on the proverbial alcoholic sundae like a little addition of what my friends and I like to call ''street meat.'' "STREET MEAT" we will yell, hungry as the vulture bridesmaids at a male-stripper themed bachelor party.

STREET MEAT!!! And there we will position ourselves, usually at the Halal Meat Cart on Avenue A, right by the train. We will sit on the subway with our mouths covered in lamb and rice, that lamb and rice no doubt getting splashed on the train seats and the homeless man adjacent to us, and our night will be capped.

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