Wink often to let people know you’re not hungry, appear confident during your constitutional to convey a sense of community, and only fart with the wind never against it.
If someone asks you a question your answer is always “no.”
“Do you know the time?” “No”
“Do you want a free bottle of designer perfume?” “No”
“Can I ask you a question?” “No”
“Do you want to help starving children?” “No”
“My name is James, what’s your name?” “No”
There’s no upside to interacting with people on the street. Don’t be polite because they’ll use it against you.
“Do you have drugs?” “No” “Okay you are innocent.” “No” “Want money?” “No” It always works and agree with them
Late hours, on long stretches of road and away from intersections, walk down the centre of a street.
You have better line of sight, fewer blind corners, and you should be picked up by cameras. As long as you’re not intoxicated, you can also tell when someone or something approaches better.
Also a good pocket light with focus options. You can light the way with it, or blind anything temporarily. If built well, it can reinforce your fist, and you can hammer strike.
Always look both sides before crossing the road, if you wear headphones take one phone off before crossing too.
Crossing red lights is fine, but make sure you have time to safely get to the other side before a car comes, if your tired just play it safe and wait for the light to change.
When it’s raining try to stay away from poodles on the road, or drivers will just splash you with water.
Be aware of dog poo on the floor.
And bikes and electric scooters on the sidewalks, almost got ran over them several times, they are supposed to use the road.
I hate getting splashed with a poodle. Takes forever to get the blood and fur out of my hair
Walk with a purpose.
Keep eye contact to a minimum.
Use mirror, reflections and shadows to tell movement without looking directly at it.
Don’t use headphones, you need your senses.
Don’t listen to strangers.
Trust your gut.
If you want people to move out of your way when walking, look over their heads or behind them. That unconsciously signals other walkers to move.
If someone asks you where you’re from say “nowhere”
I normally say I’m from Pain-Town and offer to give them a tour if they keep being nosey
“brass city” as you spit near their shoes is good too!
“Don’t worry about it.”
This actually works for a lot of questions.
“Don’t worry about it.”
That is a very different response to that question and one that could very well escalate the situation.
The correct answer is: “nowhere”
Don’t look tough, look crazy. People don’t bother me in the street. It’s because I dress like a hobo and mutter to myself while walking down the sidewalk. If they do manage to get me to make eye contact, they wish they hadn’t. A wallet and groping my ass aren’t worth losing an eyeball or testicle to what looks like a tweaker.
just saying all your thoughts outload is a fantastic way to keep people away from you, also acts as a sort of…humility check for yourself and as a socrates check for everyone else
If you did that in my town you’d be on the local crime watch group and be called a drug addict and have your local image tarnished
Never give the money before you have the stuff in your hand, and can confirm that it is, indeed, the good stuff.
Don’t put a climbing rope on asphalt the oils will mess it up.
I remember hearing about this, so I tend to avoid yardsaling my climbing gear all over the parking lot. But at the same time, I don’t really worry about it. If leaving nylon on asphalt actually caused a strength reduction to the point where the gear would fail, we’d hear about a lot more climbing deaths due to snapped ropes - which we don’t.
The don’t survive to tell the tale.
I assume this is a joke, but people don’t just die and disappear off the face of the earth. When someone dies in a climbing accident, people find out, and the death is documented in climbing accident journals.
Maybe Big Rope is silencing people.
Don’t stop or talk when people are trying to talk to you in a public place, especially if you’re in a foreign country.
Always look at both sides before you start crossing the road.
This applies to one way roads too.
Even interstates?
No, the advice there is to not cross them at all unless on a different elevation.
Like shrooms?
Especially 1 way roads, if someone’s not paying enough attention to see a no entry sign they aren’t paying enough attention to see you
Street smart
That’s the good shit.
Jaywalking is a-okay.
Especially if you want a free Darwin award.
In my country pedestrians always have right of way except on motorways.
That’ll help you win the case after you’re dead or injured for life, so that’s good!
I mean, you’d still be more likely to get hit and personally I’d think you’d want to avoid that, but if you accept that reality and are more concerned about financially benefiting (or your family benefiting, if you’re now a corpse) then this is sound logic!
I’ve never understood it myself, because I am the type that wants to do everything in my power to avoid being grievously injured to begin with even if it’s “the other guy’s fault,” but hey, different strokes.
In most residential areas there are no designated crossings.
And drivers here have an expectation that pedestrians may try and cross the road at any moment so perhaps they’re all more aware.
I’m not sure how finances fit into this cultural difference.
Depends on where you’re at to some degree I suppose (especially because if there are no designated crosswalks then there is no “jaywalking” as the latter action is predicated on the former condition), though “being where the cars go vroom” is still more likely to get you hit by one than “not being where the cars go vroom” no matter what the area is zoned for.
Yet still, my point is “the right of way” isn’t some magic forcefield that prevents injury or death, but simply means that if you do get injured or dead someone will be charged with involuntary manslaughter about it and likely have to pay your family money. And again I’d say “cool but I’d rather be alive,” so for me the true advice isn’t “don’t worry the state will make sure your surviving family members get a little cash,” it’s “try not to get dead in the first place if you can avoid it.”
It’s bizarre to me that you fixate on what happens when you’re dead.
I’m more interested in the impact of the cultural component of drivers knowing that pedestrians can cross anywhere. I feel like that makes a huge difference. In countries where jaywalking laws exist, I imagine it’s dangerous to cross the road anywhere other than a pedestrian crossing. In countries where car companies never managed to get the government go along with vitcim-blaming pedestrians and so never enacted jay-walking laws I assume it’s much safer.
I’m in my late 50s, and have never worried about crossing urban roads, never come close to being mowed down by a car (a bicycle a couple of times, but never a car). I’ve lived everywhere from tiny villages to one of the biggest, angriest cities in the world, and it’s simply never been an issue.
You just look both ways and make sure any driver heading in your direction has made eye contact so you know they’ve seen you. Oftentimes they’ll wave you across.
I mean not really, to be fair not leaving your loved ones out to dry is a common thing to worry about, life insurance and inheritance being some of the largest examples. And y’know that whole eternal question deal.
But that is wholly unrelated to the fact that “the pedestrian has the right of way” directly means “so if you die, then you won’t be considered at fault,” but you’ll still be considered “dead.”
Even if your hypothesis is correct (that “pedestrians have the right of way” means drivers are more vigilant, btw citation needed), that’s all well and good, but it doesn’t mean you should lollygag in the street or cross irresponsibly simply because the law will be vewy angwy with the driver if they hit you, it’s still a good idea to take an active role in your safety, whether you’re legally required to or not.
I don’t “fixate on what happens when I’m dead,” I try to remain safe so I don’t “dead” from jumping in front of a 2,000+ lbs hunk of mostly plastic, and I’ve never understood the seemingly suicidal people who fall back on “well he’s not supposed to hit me.”
“Jaywalking” is mostly a US thing made up by car companies to victim-blame pedestrians when they were killed by cars so they could avoid regulation themselves. Where I am we were taught very early in school how to safely cross a road safely, and pedestrians waiting to cross or already crossing a road generally have right of way even when no signals exist. It’s only an issue in backwards countries where cars have more rights than people and cities are designed for them instead.
I cross without a signal daily because otherwise I’d have to walk all the way around the block to get to a crossing going the opposite direction from where I’d want to go then find a way to circle all the way back at other crossings. That would make leaving the house more than a little inconvenient, especially since everything I’d need is in walking distance so I rarely drive. To my knowledge I have not been killed by a car a single time.
Exactly. I had to look up what Jaywalking was, I’d never heard of it before.
To my knowledge I have not been killed by a car a single time.
Fucking beautiful capstone on this otherwise great post.
Depending on where you are and what you look like, don’t do it in front of cops, though.
At least not with your dick out.
Very true.
Negative. I was visiting Burbank CA from NYC. About 8 am on a nearly empty street. Going to get coffee I got a jaywalking ticket. I was shocked .
As long as no kids are around to watch you so they dont think they can just run out in the street whenever
Look both ways before crossing…? Not sure what you mean
Edit: If you see something, no the fuck you didn’t; snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches having shat their britches, or something like that.
In the United States, the most common street name is second Street. That’s because some municipalities have first Street and some municipalities have main Street.
That’s a fun fact, ty
