Although the idea of creating an urban etiquette guide is solid, the list is amazingly effete and too nancy-ass to really be taken seriously. But I guess etiquette is by its very nature pretty nancy-ass.
(1) No raking women with your eyes; glance quickly and respectfully.
In New York? Good lord, in New York, men oggle. DC is much more discrete
(2) Offer to share a taxi rather than fight over it.
Wh would actually do that outside of the Airport, maybe, if it’s mandated?
(3) Babies in strollers get right-of-way—until they abuse it.
All mother abuse the power they have in baby strollers. During rush hour, the city should be a stroller-free zone.
(4) Still no ogling girls—c’mon!
Are you actually writing this as a guide to New York urban etiquette? Have you seen the way men look — stare — oggle! — at women in the city?
(5) And skateboarding, are you kidding me?
Come on, skateboarding is not a crime!
(6) Not everybody loves your dog as much as you do.
Yes they do. The only people who don’t are godawful cat people. And they should be hiding, dejected, in their rent-controlled studios anyway.
(7) No bicycling on the sidewalk unless under the age of 6.
And unless you’re a bike courier.
(8) Pedestrians can die of secondhand smoke, too.
Spare me, smoking fascists.
