"I gave a guy a cheese-grater to the face once," she says. "But he totally had it coming, and we were in the kitchen of a pizza place. It was right there."

A bit messy, though. But you take what you can get.

"Yeah, it's... I know people are people everywhere, but this here is a lot to get used to. I used to think I'd seen just about everything, all the time I'd spent on South Street. It didn't prepare me for this."