Sidewalk Etiquette & Parent Habits

Walking outside a lot now that it is nice? Dangerous Dave talks about sidewalk etiquette according to big city people. Plus, annoying habits parents have according to Reddit.

Episode Transcript

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Please, he's deeper in the denwith dangerous day. So what's your biggest
sidewalk pet peeve? Not to beconfused with pet pee which is one of
mine. But anyway, now thatsummer's here almost officially, and the fact
a lot of people are spending timeout on the walking paths and bike paths,
what is the proper etiquette when yousee a lot of people out there?

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Well, the website Gothamist asked bigcity people, specifically New Yorkers,
to submit their suggestions of sidewalk etiquettethat we all should follow, and they
got hundreds of responses. Some ofthe most common responses. First of all,
keep to the right like you're driving. It's America. At least stay
on the right side. Let peoplein the opposite direction walk past you,
move quickly, don't stop Busy sidewalksoperate like highways. If you're not walking

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forward at a normal pace with yourhead up, step aside. So in
other words, put your dog onphone down, you're outside for crying out
loud. Zero hate for seniors.There's a hierarchy on sidewalks. Seniors get
the highest prior. Dog walkers arealso up there, assuming they're actually walking,
tourists and business people are on thenext lowest priority groups. They say,
parents with kids pushing strollers, teenagers, joggers, and people riding e

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bikes and scooters. Also, thisis the one that bugs me the most.
Three is a crowd if you're walkingin a group, especially on a
narrow path, two wide or singlefile max. If you're walking three or
more armed arm it's cool for peoplecoming in the opposite direction to play red
rover and walk right between you.And also they say, don't spit.
That seems pretty obvious, but spittingon the sidewalk is disgusting. And also,

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clean up after your pets. Ifyou're out walking your pets, that's
awesome, but nobody wants to seea big deuce right in the middle of
the sidewalk. In the two littlemore than halfway between Mother's Day and Father's
Day, right, people on theinternet are talking about their parents' annoying habits.
Some of them are rough, likesmoking and drinking, some are strange,
and some of them are wholesome.Some of the highlights that things are

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people are complaining of. This comesfrom Reddit. It's a thread trending online
of annoying parent habits. I can'ttell my parents' secrets or they'll be the
topic of the next big family gathering. They call my name, I answer,
and then there's no response back.When I walk down the sidewalk with
my mom, she keeps veering towardsme until I'm literally off the curb.

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Other annoying parent habits. According tothis list from Reddit, my dad has
to be at the airport like sixhours before departure. Now it's probably two
hours. But you know how kidslike to exaggerate when they sleep. I'm
ninja quiet when I sleep. They'revacuuming, phone calls booming, TV,
loud conversations, demolishing parts of thehouse, fire alarms going awful. That's

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because when your parents sleep, it'sat night. When you're sleeping, you're
sleeping in till noon every day.You can't shut down life just because you
want to sleep all day. Mymom can't have a conversation without telling me.
I shouldn't be doing something for somecrazy reason, like you know,
using wind decks because the birds won'tbe able to see the window and they'll
come and break their necks. I'mthirty eight. This woman said, my

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dad needs to micro manage everything Ido to help out, even if it's
just hopping on the ladder to changea light bulb. My mom constantly humming,
usually the Canadian and national anthem.We're not even Canadian, and this
one's kind of nice. They're alwaysshowing me love and kindness without making any
demands of return. How's the kidsupposed to live with that? That's actually

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kind of a nice thing, butannoying parents' habits. Tune it again for
another episode of Deeper in the Denwith Dangerous Dave Right. Dear