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post #1051 of 1740
6/27/12 at 10:05am
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Do the naked people get more tickets when crossing the streets than the clothed people?

No, fewer. Nobody wants to stop and talk to the typical naked person on the street.
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post #1052 of 1740
6/27/12 at 10:43am
Someone suggested a rule of thumb: If a standard pencil will roll down the street, curb your wheels. Almost certainly too rational a standard for the nitwits in the golf carts.

A couple of years ago, I stopped to let my wife out to pick up some pizza on Castro. Cue the DPT twerp telling me to move my car. For whatever reason, I snapped and laid into him. Both kids in the car. Told him that he had no purpose in life and his contribution to humanity was less than a malarial mosquito. Laced with profanity. Dared him to give me a ticket. He tried to talk shit, but I got no ticket.
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post #1053 of 1740
6/27/12 at 11:41am
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Someone suggested a rule of thumb: If a standard pencil will roll down the street, curb your wheels. Almost certainly too rational a standard for the nitwits in the golf carts.

A couple of years ago, I stopped to let my wife out to pick up some pizza on Castro. Cue the DPT twerp telling me to move my car. For whatever reason, I snapped and laid into him. Both kids in the car. Told him that he had no purpose in life and his contribution to humanity was less than a malarial mosquito. Laced with profanity. Dared him to give me a ticket. He tried to talk shit, but I got no ticket.

Someone suggested a rule of thumb to me (namely, my wife): always, always, always curb your wheels.
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post #1054 of 1740
6/27/12 at 12:04pm
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Don't be ashamed, brother, it's a great city.

I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I did. Granted I was only there for 4 days. I think it was the city itself but also quite a bit of the surrounding Bay area (Marin, the Bay itself, etc) that helped a lot too.

And the sex probably helped too.

That is always the case.

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post #1055 of 1740
6/27/12 at 12:17pm
This wheel-curbing thing is intriguing. I never quite understood why Americans never use the handbrake in their cars. M.O. seems to be: put in P, open door, step out and enjoy the slight back and forth of a car that's only in Park mode but not secured by a hand brake (aka parking brake).

So Y U no use it - do you expect to sell your parking brake on eBay or what ?
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post #1056 of 1740
6/27/12 at 12:24pm
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This wheel-curbing thing is intriguing. I never quite understood why Americans never use the handbrake in their cars. M.O. seems to be: put in P, open door, step out and enjoy the slight back and forth of a car that's only in Park mode but not secured by a hand brake (aka parking brake).

So Y U no use it - do you expect to sell their parking brakes on eBay or what ?

Can parking brakes fail? For San Fran to have such a law could have based on the most dubious of circumstances.
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post #1057 of 1740
6/27/12 at 12:30pm
Maybe I wasn't clear: putting your car in P mode only locks the transmission shaft, not the wheels. So the non-driven wheels can actually rotate (and one of driven wheels too in some terrain/load conditions). On top of that, if often parked on an incline, simply putting your car on P will put increasing pressure on the pin that locks the transmission and can eventually fail. Pulling the hand brake locks the wheels and the safest way to prevent any move.
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post #1058 of 1740
6/27/12 at 12:35pm
Curbing might be a useful precaution for the occasional tremor. It won't help against the big one but might be better than nothing for the relatively more frequent small tremor.
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post #1059 of 1740
6/27/12 at 12:35pm
I think it's the almost complete prevalence of automatic transmissions. People that grew up driving manuals tend to put on their parking break even after they move over to auto.
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post #1060 of 1740
6/27/12 at 12:44pm
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post #1061 of 1740
6/27/12 at 12:45pm
I've lived in SF for 13 years and I've had a manual transmission for all but one of those years. That year was agony. No disrespect intended to anyone, but if you can drive a manual properly, you should be able to cope with the hills here without difficulty.
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post #1062 of 1740
6/27/12 at 12:47pm
Driving in stop-and-go traffic on inclined streets is a royal PITA and way too likely to lead to a lot of unnecessary bumper action. As much as I prefer manuals, I'd definitely go with an auto if I lived in a hilly city
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post #1063 of 1740
6/27/12 at 12:52pm
To each his own, I guess. biggrin.gif
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post #1064 of 1740
6/27/12 at 1:01pm
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I use mine on these hills to stop that back and forth roll you're talking about. 

 

As I explained to the meter maid, "you're giving me a ticket for not having my tires turned to the curb on this "hill" though I'm parked between two cars and have my handbrake on?"

"It's in case you get hit from behind, Sir, and roll into traffic."  

"What force of nature will come barreling over this hill, smash into the car behind with enough power to snap his parking brake, hit my car and snap my parking brake, then magically toss my car over the one in front to go careening down a 4% grade?"

"It does happen, Sir"

"Wouldn't having my wheels turned to the curb while being hit with such a force ensure that my car would leap onto the curb and take out the mothers pushing their children in strollers? Children are our future, lady."

Rip...

"Have a nice day, Sir." 

 

 

The hills here are a little crazy. I've parked perpendicular to the curb on some so steep that you have to make sure you have a solid hand on your door otherwise it will smash into the car next to you. To give you some perspective...

 

steep-hills-of-san-francisco-1.jpg

 

lefty

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post #1065 of 1740
6/27/12 at 1:08pm
I love this threak.

It's been mentioned elsewhere, but has this establishment been mentioned here?

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