Nobody has lawns in the Mission, so if you’re cranky and old, you’ll have to settle for defending your sidewalks. As Cranky Old Mission Guy reminds us:
People think I’m lying when I tell them that all this stuff is illegal. I guess I can’t blame them, because the police mostly ignore these infractions. The biggest reaction I’ve ever seen was a cop turning his head, briefly, to tell one #####, ####-###### ####### to get off the sidewalk. Then they both pretended it never happened and went on their ways undisturbed.
What do you think is behind the ### marks? My guess is “goddamned, mother-fucking asshole”
Seriously, though. Don’t ride on sidewalks. (Okay, okay… maybe if you accidentally turn down a one-way street and gotta ride it out until the next block. But even then, wear a defeated “I just fucked up” look and apologize profusely to every pedestrian you pass.)
[via C.O.M.G.'s Flickr]
Heh… some guy was riding his bike on the sidewalk on Geary and maneuvered himself into a pole trying to zip around my co-workers and I, and then yelled at me for being in the way. I laughed.
If you are skateboarding, you had better be moving fast because my dog will try to take a chunk out of your ass.
To those skateboarders that understand that dogs react poorly to skateboards and stop to pick up their boards as we go by, THANK YOU!
you’re welcome! (my dog’s a bit of a skaterhater too)
The sidewalk’s for regular walking, not for fancy walking.
Excellent!
win
Sidewalk surfing
Ok but.. what about rollerblades and big wheels?
Land Shark Go !!!!
If you cannot fucking track stand at the stop light please do not ride onto the sidewalk in an attempt to prolong your slow pedaling. Just get off the fixie!
Please keep kids where they belong: indoors doing drugs and playing video games. God forbid they should skateboard. Let’s keep public space safe and open for cars and pedestrians.
“(Okay, okay… maybe if you accidentally turn down a one-way street and gotta ride it out until the next block. But even then, wear a defeated “I just fucked up” look and apologize profusely to every pedestrian you pass.)”
Or, you know, get off and walk it a block
Skateboarding on the sidewalk should be allowed, but not the biking. It is weak.
skateboard everywhere fuck your rules.
1993 called, it wants its Rebel SK8R! stereotype back.
1983 — I checked caller ID.
I don’t mind skateboarding on the sidewalks.