[DubbaG]

St. Patrick's Day today began quite early for many, perhaps beginning sometime earlier in the week for some. I drove the morning shift today, and by 10am there were drunks in my cab. By the time I quit it seemed like the whole damn city was trashed. It's now 7:23, I'm considering going out but I feel like I might kill one of them if I do. I have to be nice to them at work cause my car is bigger, but when I'm among them violence is a bit more practical.

You see, when I'm driving my cab, it's my job to convert pedestrians into customers. The problem is, when people don't need a cab, they hate us, but when they do and one of us magically appears, we're your best friends! Well it goes both ways you motherfuckers.

Here are a few pointers to pedestrians to avoid my scorn...

DO walk on the sidewalk.
DO NOT walk in the street.

DO cross at crosswalks.
DO NOT cross at crosswalks when I am driving through them.

DO stand on the curb, wave and yell to me if you want a ride.
DO NOT stand on the curb, wave and yell to me and then ignore me when I pull up.

In fact, do not do anything that from a distance could be interpreted as flagging down a taxi. This includes:
Waving to your friend
Pointing at a building
Pointing at anything
Stretching
Yawning
Yawning + Stretching
Scratching your head
Picking your nose
Yoga
Swatting at a bee
Fanning stinky air away
Looking at your wristwatch
Rubbing your wife's ass
Rubbing your girlfriend's ass
Rubbing your own ass
Carrying a toddler on your shoulders
Looking into the street
Looking straight ahead
Running
Walking
Moving
Standing still
Standing
Being a tree
Being a fire hydrant
Being an ipod ad on a bus stop

That's all I can think of at the moment.

[city dweller]

:lmao:

LOL. Chaotic day at work? Altough I'm going into writing/journalism, taxi driving is my dream job. Ever since I saw Scorsese's Taxi Driver - it seems like the best way to see a city and its people. I'll be in San Francisco in less than a month, I'll try to remember to keep this list in mind when a taxi cab's nearby.

[mhays]

Don't cross at crosswalks when you're driving through them?

If you have time to stop, then pedestrians have the right of way. I can't think of how many cars I've pounded on for not knowing that.

[fflint]

Don't know about the whole city, but my train home tonight was certainly covered in vomit. The whole train emptied out after some rancid, chunky shit hit the floor in a St. Paddy's Day tsunami just after Van Ness station...

[urban_encounter]

Don't know about the whole city, but my train home tonight was certainly covered in vomit. The whole train emptied out after some rancid, chunky shit hit the floor in a St. Paddy's Day tsunami just after Van Ness station...



:lmao:

I guess we now know how to find a seat on BART (or any public train for that matter)

While i myself didn't venture out to the bars here in Chicago, some friends reported that many people were already drunk at 10:00 a.m. downtown watching the city dye the Chicago River green....

No reports of any green tsunamis on the "L" though....

[BTinSF]

I'll try to remember to keep this list in mind when a taxi cab's nearby.

Shouldn't be an issue. A taxi will seldom be nearby--unless you are standing in front of a hotel.

PS: Does this make YOU feel like vomiting:

http://sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/03/18/ba_parade18_062_mac.jpg

[rs913]

That green dog should appear in an SPCA commercial. Notice how it seems to have an expression on its face as if to say, "Look what they did to me. You gotta be kidding."

I wonder if the whole city is hung over today...or at least the Marina. Sure looked that way from what I saw walking around there.

[DubbaG]

Today was the fucking slowest day ever. I hit the streets by 6 but nobody got out of bed before 10.

[Reminiscence]

I know I witnessed some pretty freaky stuff last night. Some friends of mine and I went to see 300 at the Metreon and almost got ran over by a couple of bikers on a mad rampage through the Yerba Buena Gardens area. I thought seeing people vomit on the streets was bad enough, but this time it seems they went over the limit. :no:

[sf_eddo]

My St Patricks Day was drunk and blissful. Fort Funston, Hayes Valley, and Duboce Park had nary any drunk revelers puking in public at any time of the day or night.

That said, St. Patricks Day, Cinco de Mayo, and Halloween are probably the three worst days ever to be in San Francisco.