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@kickycan,

kickycan wrote:

I've walked the 59th street bridge several times.

did you feel groovy?

@tsarstepan,

I love walking in Manhattan. Thousands and thousands of wonderful steps and sights.

Bree turned me onto this wonderful website

http://www.nysonglines.com/

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@djjd62,

djjd62 wrote:

kickycan wrote:
I've walked the 59th street bridge several times.

did you feel groovy?

You know it.

Hello, lamppost, whatcha knowin'?

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@tsarstepan,

That 's unnatural, Your Majesty. That 's what cabs r 4.

David

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@ehBeth,

ehBeth wrote:

I love walking in Manhattan. Thousands and thousands of wonderful steps and sights.

Bree turned me onto this wonderful website

http://www.nysonglines.com/

I will confess, that in the 1970s n 80s,
I attended a course, the Silva Mind Control Course,
on Madison Ave. and 54th St. that evolved into a social club.
It was a good place to get chicks.

I usually drove there; not always.
Sometimes I took the subway in.
Tho for returning at nite, I coud take the subway on 52nd St,
sometimes, at nite, the weather was so ineffably delightful,
that I strolled & ambled from 54th St. to the subway on 42nd and 6th Ave or 8th Ave.
Some of the mercantile displays were colorful n beautiful; soothing.
Sometimes stop and sit at the fountains on 6th Ave. in summer.
I was free to take as long as I wanted; no one to whom to account.

David

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@kickycan,

you, Mr. Kick, have started many threads. I was just looking for the one on songs about New York. 39 pages of threads to wade through.

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I was twenty two when I first bought a car. I did lots of walking and hitch hiking before then and quite a bit after. Used to walk around Manhattan constantly and also from 31st Street in Brooklyn down through Flatbush. Walked around San Francisco, Houston and Corpus Christi. Hitched mainly from Texas to California and back. These days, I go to Burroughs Park with mrs edgarblythe and walk around the lake, daily. She is off work and the excercise is very beneficial.

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

That 's unnatural, Your Majesty. That 's what cabs r 4.

David

I disdain everything about taxis. For me it's either the subway, the bus, or walking.

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@kickycan,

My um...
was that I was considering explaining more about dys' life in reply to your post (http://able2know.org/topic/144100-2#post-3969685) but then both knew it wasn't my business to do that, and that you were kidding.

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@tsarstepan,

tsarstepan wrote:

OmSigDAVID wrote:

That 's unnatural, Your Majesty. That 's what cabs r 4.

David

I disdain everything about taxis. For me it's either the subway, the bus, or walking.

Are u disposed to elaborate on your views qua cabs?
What brought that on ?

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

It's a distinctive distrust of all things taxi driver. From the recent price gouging scandal to the fact most taxi drivers are too aggressive and cocky in their driving. They are supposed to be the professional drivers of the road but they are never so. I realize this is an overgeneralization but as sterotypes go it seems to me the most accurate.

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@tsarstepan,

Not failing to mention one killed a dog I was walking because he decided that he had the right of way over someone already walking in the crosswalk with the legal walk signal lit up. And if some nearby witnesses didn't intervene, he would have gone away with a hit and run. They stepped out in front of him at the next intersection.

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@tsarstepan,

I've a few good (to me) taxi driver stories, though.

But walking in New York is my idea of a kind of nirvana.

Did you see the photo series of New York at night (talk about off topic, but maybe not entirely.) It's part of the NYT set of articles on sleep, including insomnia, about in this case apparently an insomniac who walks the city and photographs, finds beauty in desolate places. I had (well, probably still have) a friend like that, who covered LA's dark and dangerous alleys in the middle of the night.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/scenes-from-the-night-shift/

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@tsarstepan,

Cool, good for them.

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@tsarstepan,

tsarstepan wrote:

It's a distinctive distrust of all things taxi driver.

Well, I agree about not trusting anyone with more than u r willing to lose; a wise policy.
I 've had several friends n acquaintances, who 've been cab drivers,
including my dead friend, Neil; I was never sure whether he stole my ruby and gold ring.
I met him at Mind Control; he was a good friend regardless of whether or not he stole the ring.

tsarstepan wrote:

From the recent price gouging scandal to the fact most taxi drivers are too aggressive and cocky in their driving. They are supposed to be the professional drivers of the road but they are never so. I realize this is an overgeneralization but as sterotypes go it seems to me the most accurate.

Jeez, so u don 't take cabs??
Whodathunk such a life were possible ?
If I didn't know u better, I 'd suspect that u were Rod Serling, in disguise.

David

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@tsarstepan,

tsarstepan wrote:

Not failing to mention one killed a dog I was walking because
he decided that he had the right of way over someone already
walking in the crosswalk with the legal walk signal lit up. And if
some nearby witnesses didn't intervene, he would have gone
away with a hit and run. They stepped out in front of him at the next intersection.

Yeah, I met another cab driver at Mind Control, a pleasant lad of around 15.
He 's probably older by now.
After some months passed, he said that he dropped out of school,
that he 'd been taking illegal drugs. Thereafter (presumably, when he was 18)
he became a cab driver. He said that he 'd been diagnosed
as having some of those drugs "absorbed by the fat" in his brain,
which was released, becoming operational with psychogenic effect
on an unpredictable basis, such that when a passenger left her scarf
in his cab, that scarf reminded him of a girlfriend who 'd abandoned him.
This memory caused such emotions in him as to impel him to ram his cab into a bridge abutment.
(He survived, with no visible effects.)

Q.E.D.: some cab drivers r nuts, if thay 've abused too many drugs.

David

P.S.:
My dead friend, Neil, was not nuts.
I m pretty sure that he did not abuse any drugs.

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G'day, tsar

(or good evening, actually.)

Just dropping by to say that I intend to get stuck back into walking again (with a vengeance! Very Happy

) this long weekend. Staring tomorrow morning. Dunno why I stopped, really. Confused

Anyway, I will report back!

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@msolga,

Go forth and MARCH Lady Olga! Wear comfortable shoes!

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@tsarstepan,

I don't march, tsar, I gallop! A menace on the footpaths! Smile

Of course I will be wearing comfortable shoes!
Always!

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@msolga,

Yesterday I walked to Newton Corner. Happened to look up at a point and saw a guy working on scaffolding, a painter, a man of African descent, maybe 30 or so, grinning at me. I said hi and he said hi and I went along. I would not have seen him otherwise, if I hadn't just so happened to go by there and then. He wasn't hitting on me (at least, I don't think he was), it's just nice to be smiled at.

I also, farther along, saw a woman sitting in the sun with her little black poodle. The dog was a little grey around the muzzle. There was an invisible fence around (how can you tell there's an invisible fence around? Because there are little flag markers). The dog barked at me, little yippy barks, as I walked by, and I told her she was a good girl and very, very frightening and menacing. All seven or so pounds of her.

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