Here's a winner -- I'm jockeying for position on a rough, very crowded
stretch of very upper Manhattan with a pimped out Honda Civic. It seems to
me like the guy is driving blind, so I pull back out of harm's way. When I
get a clear stretch, I pass him and look in the car to see what's up. He's
got a driver's side TV going!
As if having to take evasive action from helicopters isn't enough, last
week I had to dodge a skier in Times Square. I was never actually in
danger of hitting the skier or vice versa, but a ski slope had been set up
for a publicity stunt or something, and when the eye sees an accelerating
object's path cross the eye-owner's path, alarms go off.
And now that it's almost Spring, the roller bladers are out. We have the
John-John rule in New York, which gives bladers equal access to bike lanes,
paths, routes, and greenways. But do they have to stick a puck along the
path, or practice roller ballet, in a commuter area?
--ag