Always look at both sides before you start crossing the road.
This applies to one way roads too.
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
Even interstates?
No, the advice there is to not cross them at all unless on a different elevation.
Like shrooms?
Street smart
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.
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.
Stray dogs:
If you pass somewhere and there are suddenly stray dogs in your way, just squat down and show your hands. Hands down, palms up. If they come to sniff and shit, keep your palms below their face. Basically let them come to you. When they trust you, you can pat the top of the head. But patting the top of the head before they know you can be dangerous, as you might use them to hit them, for example.Usually within seconds the whole pack comes to get some love :)
I’ve never been attacked by a dog this way. But if a dog would come at me, actually aggressive and not slow down, I hear you should use your feet to defend yourself.
Don’t just walk through their territory.
If you do have to defend yourself, indiscriminate use of a grenade launcher sends a powerful message.
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Jaywalking is a-okay.
Depending on where you are and what you look like, don’t do it in front of cops, though.
Very true.
At least not with your dick out.
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 .
Especially if you want a free Darwin award.
“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.
Edit: Thanks for the downvote, doesn’t change the facts.
The very word jaywalk is an interesting—and not historically neutral—one. Originally an insult against bumptious “jays” from the country who ineptly gamboled on city sidewalks, it was taken up by a coalition of pro-automobile interests in the 1920s, notes historian Peter D. Norton in his book Fighting Traffic. “Before the American city could be physically reconstructed to accommodate automobiles, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where cars belong,” he writes. “Until then, streets were regarded as public spaces, where practices that endangered or obstructed others (including pedestrians) were disreputable. Motorists’ claim to street space was therefore fragile, subject to restrictions that threatened to negate the advantages of car ownership.” And so, where newspapers like the New York Times once condemned the “slaughter of pedestrians” by cars and defended the right to midblock crossings—and where cities like Cincinnati weighed imposing speed “governors” for cars—after a few decades, the focus of attention had shifted from marauding motorists onto the reckless “jaywalker.”
Exactly. I had to look up what Jaywalking was, I’d never heard of it before.
In my country pedestrians always have right of way except on motorways.
If someone is about to get in your path just look at where you’re trying to walk instead of looking at them. They’ll move instinctively.
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.
Never go to a secondary location.
ELI5 please…
It’s from the “street smarts” John Mulaney comedy bit, but in all seriousness—
If an attacker insists on transporting you away from where the initial attack occurred, you are going to die. Fight back like your life depends on it, because it does.
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
When someone stopped me to ask if they could ask something, I used to say yes because I always thought, maybe they need directions or something. After moving to the city I quickly learned to stop doing that and to either ignore people or to give an excuse and keep on walking. It has happened exactly one time that someone actually needed my help getting somewhere - every other time they just ask for money.
After a few years of Living downtown in a not great city my automatic on the street response has become a short “Fuck off bud”
I’ve never been followed after saying it, Only after trying to not be a bitch.
Don’t look tough, look crazy. People don’t bother me in the street. It’s because I dress like a hobo and mutter / silently move my lips talking to myself while walking down the sidewalk. If they do manage to get me to make eye contact, it’s intense enough 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.
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
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
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
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If you’re out walking late at night, having bigger dogs help. Ain’t nobody gonna come up to me looking for trouble if they see me walking a couple big pit mixes.
Don’t put a climbing rope on asphalt the oils will mess it up.
That’s the good shit.
