From cycling cartoonist Dave Walker
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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I mean yeah but also people do leave them littered everywhere
Its just a bike. I do not care.
I care. I bike myself. I was walking downtown and some idiot left their bike leaning up against the tree on the sidewalk. Right next to outdoor seating to a small restaurant. Just completely blocking the choke point of the sidewalk. Walking with my kid in a stroller. I could either drop the stroller off the curb into traffic or move his bike to the other side and help everyone else actually walk.
I moved his bike. Which required actually picking it up as the bike wheel was locked. A 50lb electric bike. Not something I'd expect everyone with a stroller or especially a wheelchair would be capable of.
The problem is both. Don't leave your shit blocking where others need to go.
Its especially annoying because it easily fit on the other side of the tree. I just can't imagine why someone would leave it like that. But, yeah, some people are just never taught basic manners.
Having a kid now. I realize that there are so so many adults that just never got taught how to not be an asshole. They have a child's brain.
We have utterly destrpyed the commons, and you wonder why nobody cares for the corporate owned shit they need to rent to get around? It is not a common asset. It is owned and profited from; it extracts from you. It has locking mechanisms. It is hostile even if it's also useful. I don't use the fucking things, but i woukd toss them in the street when i was done, if i did. Live by the hobbesian hell world, get left in fhe street by the hobbesian hell world.
You want people to care about the world, make it for them, make the space their friend, not an enemy or exploiter whose every surface oozes subtle hostility.
So you're lashing out at a proximal cause instead of the larger structural issue, that most of the square footage of our cities is hostile and dangerous to unarmored humanity.
Dude. Be normal. I'm sharing a story about an annoyance of modern US infrastructure (which is obviously the fault of cars).
I'm confused by what conversation you're trying to start here. I obviously acknowledge the issues of infrastructure that lead non cars to have to deal with the frustration of a "choke point" in our sidewalks.
I think you may be just interpreted my comment in the least charitable way anyone could. Because, God damn, I don't think anything you criticized could actually be concluded from what I said.
Not to mention the three word quote you start with. Are you just here to try to disagree with someone that likely agrees with you?
Seriously. Maybe reread this in the AM mate.
Sorry, i still have some shreds of compassion left in me and multiple brain cells. Working on it.
Didnt have shit to say about everything you said. We likely do agree on a lot!
Just enough so you know what im referencing. Any reader would have the context. For brevity/cleanness and because vopy+pasting precisely is tedious in the ux i use. You seem to be interpreting me in a pretty uncharitable light too. Not every disagreement or correction is angry. Not all anger you observe is directed at you. Not all anger requires taking offense.