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Baroque Bloke![]() |
Walking along city sidewalks, I often come to grates, or metal utility access doors. I usually detour around them. Maybe I'm overly cautious – I don't see anyone else doing this. What do you guys do? Serious about crackers. | ||
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Three Generations of Service ![]() |
Only when I have my high heels on. Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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You can't go home again ![]() |
My dad fell down one as a kid. The metal basement access doors were closed but when he stepped onto them the doors gave way and caved in. I've seen it happen to another person as well. Because of that I try to avoid them if possible, but I don't obsess about it. I will stop and walk around a set of closed doors that visibly look old and rickety. IN NYC you come across more than a few of those. As for subway grates and things like that, I walk over them no issues. --------------------------------------- Life Member NRA “If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve." - Lao Tzu | |||
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I only become aware of them (at all) when carrying something in my hand, keys, phone, etc. as I'm walking by. I know that, odds are, I'll lose something down there that I value one day when I'm not paying enough attention. | |||
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Not really from Vienna![]() |
Some of them have cool air coming out from them. I like those. | |||
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I am too busy texting on my phone when walking to notice those things. LOL Do you walk under ladders, and stay home on Friday the 13th? | |||
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I jump on the cracks too. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm. ![]() |
No particular effort to avoid them, unless it is raining, snowy or icy, then they can be a slip hazard. What are really bad are storm drain grates with parallel bars in the street next to the sidewalk. When the grates run parallel to the street, they will fold a bicycle wheel in half and send you flying if you drop it in one. This happened to me once. But I gave up bicycling shortly after getting my driver's license anyway. | |||
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I understand WHY people avoid them, but I'd wager they may be safer than some areas of the sidewalk! As I explained to my son, that hole doesn't just go straight down, it likely runs the length of the sidewalk in form of a drain. So there is a void underneath you the whole time. You just don't care cause you can't see it. 10 years to retirement! Just waiting! | |||
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Baroque Bloke![]() |
You're correct about that! "A New York woman suffered serious injuries when the sidewalk collapsed beneath her feet on Saturday. …" https://www.google.com/amp/www...ed-article-1.3386668 Serious about crackers. | |||
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Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
I generally avoid them. Too many years of walking in dressy shoes (ie., shoes with smooth leather soles) in too many cities in too many kinds of bad weather. Then again I've inadvertently gone skiing down a smooth, dry sidewalk in SF wearing shoes like that, too. | |||
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A man's got to know his limitations ![]() |
I hardly ever encounter them, but I don't avoid them. "But, as luck would have it, he stood up. He caught that chunk of lead." Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock "If there's one thing this last week has taught me, it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it." Clarence Worley | |||
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I avoid them. I also avoid the old steel bridges with grating on the "floor." | |||
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My mom, as a speech pathologist, was treating a patient out of her office when I was young, that suffered a brain injury resulting from a fall thru a rotted out steel grate. The person needed to re-learn how to talk. So some 50 or so years later, I think of that (almost always) whenever I approach a steel grate, and will avoid it. She also was working with someone who accidentally banged her head into the corner of a steel cabinet door when she stood up and lost her ability speak clearly, so I have a long-term habit of closing cabinet doors, especially if someone is crouched below them. __________ __________ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." | |||
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Never Go Full Retard ![]() |
I could deal with Bigfoot, the Boogeyman, C.H.U.D., and Pennywise who all live below those grates. What I couldn't take as a kid and why I still avoid walking on grates ... heights. They don't think it be like it is, but it do. | |||
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If you work in orthopedics or the ER you learn the world is not a very safe place. If you think too much about these things you develop agoraphobia. LOL | |||
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My dog crosses the line![]() |
There have been a few electrocutions in NYC this way. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/si...ks-kill-walker-dogs/ | |||
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Just for the hell of it ![]() |
Generally No. Acception if it looks unsafe for some reason but that's normally not the case. _____________________________________ Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. Jack Kerouac | |||
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