Got to see a bit of a Brooklyn institution this morning ... parked right outside our house. Ronny the seltzer man has been making home deliveries of bottles of soda and seltzer for the last 40 years. A rickety old truck, with wooden crates held precariously in place and bottles rattling around together in the back.

Apparently he fell from the top of the truck a few years ago, but after a week in hospital, was back out on the road with the help of a temporary driver. $25 cash for 10 bottles delivered to your door every second week. Priceless.