Megan dear, I hate to sound nit-picky, but there is no South Mercer Street. There's an East Mercer St, a West Mercer St, and just plain Mercer Street. That QFC is on plain Mercer St.
It's important because if things don't work out in your literary career, you may end up in city work like me, and they test you on things like that.
I think you mean "cowed", not "kowtowed".
To cow (transitive verb) is to intimidate (related, I believe, to the words "cower" and possibly "coward"). To kowtow (intransitive verb) is to prostrate oneself in such a way as to touch one's forehead to the ground (the usual obeisance with which the Emperors of China were greeted).
"kowtow", does not mean does not mean "intimidate", but rather "make obeisance". I think the word you are looking for is "cowed".
Thus, "The employees were not cowed by the suspect, and thus they did not kowtow to him."
It sucks to have mental health problems, live on the streets, be eaten up with crawlies, have addiction issues and have society ignore your pleas for help because they don't want to pay more taxes.
@11, as much as I agree with your alternate reality, in the real world it still sucks to constantly have bums brazenly stealing shit and threatening to stab people. A lot of these nutters on the street want to be ignored, or at least think they do, and unless we change the way we do involuntary commitments it's going to stay this way.
hmmm... Complete assholery, intern. Way to exploit/ridicule the mentally unstable. Good thing that the events in Tuscon did not in any way alter the way the Stranger handles discourse on matters related to the mentally unstable.
It's important because if things don't work out in your literary career, you may end up in city work like me, and they test you on things like that.
It's so nice to have an unpaid intern who doesn't refer to me as a genocidal troll.....
To cow (transitive verb) is to intimidate (related, I believe, to the words "cower" and possibly "coward"). To kowtow (intransitive verb) is to prostrate oneself in such a way as to touch one's forehead to the ground (the usual obeisance with which the Emperors of China were greeted).
Thus, "The employees were not cowed by the suspect, and thus they did not kowtow to him."
It sucks to have mental health problems, live on the streets, be eaten up with crawlies, have addiction issues and have society ignore your pleas for help because they don't want to pay more taxes.