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One thing I do close to this is refusing to walk on street grating. As a child I heard about someone and their dog getting electrocuted by one when a light post had bad lighting and I have seen so many videos of grating giving way because of street failures. π Looking the story up, I can't find it (would have been a long time ago) but some people did talk about electricity in cities being a risk to puppers at least.
You may have heard about Jodie Lane's death in 2004. https://www.villagepreservation.org/2018/01/16/remembering-jodie-lane/ I was fortunate to have met her a few months before Con Ed killed her through negligence. Her dogs Miko and Riley survived (since passed from age), but her fiance Alex was never really himself again.
Thank you for that article. I am usually a pretty logical person, so I swore there had to be something to it, but my memory isn't what it used to be and I was willing to give I was misremembering.
It was such a horrific example of malfeasance.
I always stand to the side of the elevator since I read the ama with the elevator repairman. He said that the steps are just thin cast aluminum and the center can crack and break out. Then your leg would get caught in the mechanism underneath and grind it off.
Oh gosh, kind of thank you but also kind of not. New fear unlocked. π±
Sorry π
It's alright, i have to use surprisingly few elevators. And hey, maybe i should take the stairs more often. π
I do this and I donβt even have a reason like you do.
I think itβs just become so ingrained in me now that itβs not even a conscious choice π
When i was little i didn't like to walk on cracks. Not for any reason or even the old kiddy superstition. I still have to catch myself not walking funny to avoid the pattern cracks in sidewalk! π
I absolutely relate to this - I worry my stopping to let people pass so I donβt have to walk on grates makes me look totally unhinged
I will say i have some rules where i can walk on the sides with one foot if i have to, but never the middle! π It doesn't come up as much but one place i go every week sometimes i just walk in the dirt around the sketchy parts of the grating. I live where the ground is really soft so a sink hole from water draining isnt unheard of.
Professionals tell me we only have to worry when we cant work around it anymore, apparently this isn't enough (alone) to be considered disordered! π