"1"^^ . "4"^^ . "2011-01-29T00:00:00"^^ . "2"^^ . "2"^^ . . . "Upon walking in on my birthday, the following brief conversation occurred between me and the lady at the counter:\n\nMe: \"Hi, I heard a rumour that--\"\n\nLady: \"Birthday bagels? Go get twelve and bring them here with your ID.\"\n\nMe: \"K.\"\n\nI loaded up a giant brown paper bag with twelve bagels, which were sadly cold, but I did arrive around 5 or 6. Marble bagels? Bring 'em. Cinnamon and raisin? Hell yeah. Chocolate chip bagels! Five of those. With the enormous selection (at least, to a bagel newbie like myself...) I tried to snag one of every variety I had never heard of. \n\nOn the other side of the bagel \"aisle\" were a bunch of sweets that I could barely resist...Some kind of tiny, filled pastry oozing with chocolate, fruit, or some other kind of sugary goodness. It was all I could do to keep my hands off. Too bad I had just indulged at the nearby La Bamboche.\n\nAnyway, true to the counter lady's word, I flashed my ID at her and was on my way with my bagels. If you saw a weird lady that day carrying bagels in a giant bag and munching the chocolate chip bagel in her hand on the subway, yup, that was me.\n\n(They were reaallllly good.)"^^ . .