I <3 NYC
Further proof of intelligent design:
And you wonder why the Middle East conflict is seemingly intractable in this decade.
On the other foot...
I absolutely adore the fact that I can step out the door at 9PM, lace-up my inline skates, hit the park loop, hear a live band and interrupt my laps to skate to their music, and finish-up my workout at 10:30 or so in relative safety. And yes, I wear lights so the clueless pedestrians and wrong-way bikers won't hit me :-)
- Bikers who go the wrong way down a bike lane at night with no lights whatsoever. Nevermind that they are endagering pedestrians who aren't expecting wrong way traffic, and seriously endagering bikers and skaters going the right way: it's a bike lane so they have to use it. Going the right way on the adjacent avenue would be too much trouble.
- Pedestrians in Central Park who cross the road against the walk light without looking, despite the fact that bikers and skaters are hurtling towards them. It's a park, so they have the right to walk wherever, however, and whenever they want. Corollary: Bikers and skaters who don't bother to slow down when pedestrians are crossing when the walk light is on.
- People who don't move to the back of a bus or into the middle of a subway car.
- People who insist on walking into a subway car before people have gotten out.
- People who leave their dogs' shit all over the sidewalks.
And you wonder why the Middle East conflict is seemingly intractable in this decade.
On the other foot...
I absolutely adore the fact that I can step out the door at 9PM, lace-up my inline skates, hit the park loop, hear a live band and interrupt my laps to skate to their music, and finish-up my workout at 10:30 or so in relative safety. And yes, I wear lights so the clueless pedestrians and wrong-way bikers won't hit me :-)