 Why are Danny and the deli owner aghast?
I didn't notice the impending rain storm and had no umbrella when I reached the sidewalk, to find myself confronted with an almost tropical downpour. There were four men confronting him, evidently torn between the desire to make an angry exit and the impulse to stay and beat him up. This gave them exactly no room to move either forward or backward, for the car had its back to a hydrant and the taxi to a lamp. Although rather narrow, this is a two-way street, and in no time at all, traffic was stacked up from both directions as far as the avenues. Discounting the fact that you could have prearranged it, if my dim provisional theory is right, that would be actually impossible.
 Alec drops his belongings from a tall height without breaking them
 Alec drops his belongings from a tall height without breaking them  Alec breaks the top of a glass bottle and continues to drink the contents  Nat continues to win significant poker hands in the deli  Alec has the nerve to try and steal items from the deli