Looking forward to the arrival of their first child, the Robbins set about nidifying the apartment above the store, which required converting Granny's old room into a nursery, which in turn required finding somewhere to dispose of the untidy hummocks of winter clothes and decades-old news magazines, a task accomplished in the short term by a series of exuberant defenestrations, not an uncommon tactic in their cramped neighborhood where the throwing of unwanted things out of windows (whether yesterday's newspaper, today's potato peelings, or - on occasion - other people) served very well as the sort of bread-and-circuses entertainment that distracts the disenfranchised from their troubles.