Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!kithrup.com!djheydt From: djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) Subject: Re: What if life were like fiction? Message-ID: Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 20:08:45 GMT References: <4baa80d8-6bba-4aef-99e7-adaeccb3e088@googlegroups.com> Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ld. X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Lines: 102 X-Received-Bytes: 4887 X-Received-Body-CRC: 669942128 Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:453515 In article , Cryptoengineer wrote: >djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in >news:oErJ8x.1M1z@kithrup.com: > >> In article <4baa80d8-6bba-4aef-99e7-adaeccb3e088@googlegroups.com>, >> Kevrob wrote: >>>On Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 4:49:10 PM UTC-4, Robert Carnegie >>>wrote: >>>> On Thursday, 6 October 2016 03:52:56 UTC+1, Joy Beeson wrote: >>>> > On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 19:06:03 -0000 (UTC), nance@math.ohio-state.edu >>>> > (Anthony Nance) wrote: >>>> > >>>> > > You know, you'd reduce your commute time considerably in one >>>> > > direction with a well-placed fire pole. >>>> > >>>> > But walking down stairs is really good for the quads. Sometimes I >>>> > walk a mile just so I can walk down a staircase at the turn-around >>>> > point. >>>> >>>> I think that walking down stairs isn't an unmixed >>>> blessing. But do we hear about people injured going >>>> down stairs... well, I suppose we do. And the pole >>>> is hardly safe. >>> >>>I know someone in his mid-60s, who due to the type of accumulated >>>damage to one of his knees/legs or tendon or ligament in his leg, >>>finds it difficult to walk downstairs. He's able to walk UP stairs >>>faster. >> >> Yes, for some reason going downstairs is (under some >> circumstances) harder than going up. One of the muscles in my >> left knee is currently unhappy with me. I have to be careful >> climbing into bed, and while I can (almost always) go upstairs >> without hurting, downstairs is a matter of putting my left foot >> down first and bringing the right to join it, so my left knee >> doesn't have to bear my weight. >> >> This has happened before and gone away again, so I hope it will >> do so again when it gets around to it. >> >> Oh yes, and I cling to the stair-rail all the way down. >> >>>He does a lot of walking, and was able to lose considerable >>>weight from that, and watching his diet. On occasions when he and >>>I have descended long staircases together, such as going from street >>>level to a subway platform in Manhattan, I walk behind him, to shield >>>him from straphangers in a hurry who would run over him. When he was >>>using a cane, you'd think even New Yorkers would get a clue.* >> >> But isn't it one of the distinguishing marks of New Yorkers that >> they never look up at any of the sights and never, ever, look at >> another person? > >I'm a New Yorker in exile. Not making eye contact as much as >out-of-towners is certainly true - you have so many people >'in your face' walking around (lowest car ownership in the >country) or on the subway that its simple politeness. Not >looking up - no more that the native inhabitants of any >other city. How many times has Dorothy gone out of her way to >cross the Golden Gate, \Well, you cross the GGB if you are going from San Francisco to San Rafael, or vice versa. I live in the North Bay, and the one we cross at least once a week (just got back, in fact) is the Carquinez, from Vallejo to (ultimately) Berkeley. >visit Alcatraz, Never did, not particularly interested. >or Telegraph Hill, I've been there; not recent. >? or >drive down Lombard Street? Every time we have visitors from out-of-town, we make a special trip to take them there. We also take them down Fell Street, which is a couple of blocks over from Lombard and on a hill *almost* as steep. As you head down it, it looks as if you are about to plunge down a cliff. Always gets a reaction. Perhaps a better analogy would be, How often do New Yorkers go to Boston to look at the USS Constitution? or Philadelphia, to look the the Liberty Bell? From where we live, San Francisco is two bridges and at least an hour's drive away. Or a walk, a bus ride, and BART under the bay, about the same time required. >Has she been to the Disney Family Museum? Is that in the Bay Area?? You'd think it would be in Anaheim. (My daughter and son-in-law do take me to Bats' Day at Disneyland almost every spring.) -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com