The Lost Boys from Peter Pan were allegedly lost by their nannies. Having gone unclaimed for seven days they were whisked off to Neverland, which is commonly regarded as a metaphor for immortality and escapism. This is what came to mind, when I was leaving my apartment for work and found a man sleeping in the doorway of my building. Even from a distance, I could tell he wasn’t a homeless person (or, as is more appropriate in New York, an apartmentless person).
Like any true New Yorker, I can tell when a fresh shipment of some illegal substance hits the city based upon the number of people sleeping in the streets that don’t really look homeless. Initially, I suspected that this was such an individual, but closer inspection revealed that it was a twenty something man in a suit accessorized with a Breitling watch and black shiny shoes, using a backpack for a pillow and sleeping on top of a cardboard box. He didn’t look homeless. He looked like he worked in finance. One of the Lost Lehman Brothers Perhaps?
If this is your FBF, please contact the DABA girls to claim. See Picture above.
P dot S There are no lost girls in Neverland because as Peter Pan explains, girls are too clever to ever be lost in this manner. Obvi.
