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just last weekend, my boyfriend and i were confronted at a bus stop on sutter st. and van ness by a rather dirty looking man. he pretty much said the same stuff to us,. Saying he was traveling all around with his girlfriend and how they are leaving that day for Europe. He began talking about his band, told us if we wanted tickets to a show that night, for his band melting point. he said he had to meet his girlfriend at the holiday inn express near pier 39. Thats were me and my bf were getting off. The whole bus ride he just not talked to us about music, he actually had some good tastes and was a Bukowski fan. We were kind of interested by this man, and his knowledge of music. Especially, my bf, he kind of targeted out talking to him alot about recording. Anyway, I noticed some odd things as the bus ride progressed... he had a package he was writing notes on and claimed it was a master copy of his bands music he was mailing. He kept talking alot, very hyper. I noticed he was not blinking much and the blood around his nose was a dead give away... coke head homeless man who may once have been into playing and recording music. Then the kicker... he says "I played bass for Tina Turner"... My boyfriend and I were just like he provided some cool info such as a good bookstore. As we parted he said, if you guys want to come to my show meet me back here in a half hour. Naturally, we didn't... the whole run in was kind of creepy.. especially because I fealt like the fact that I was taking photos at a bus stop was a dead give away I'm a young naive tourists. That whole week we would talk about how odd that interaction was and how the hobos actually have some neat things to say. Then we looked on ine to see if he was really in a band called Melting Point and found these virtualtourist.com people to avoide warnings.. Needless to say, we laughed the rest of the night and realized this man his pathetic because he has been doing the same scam for nearly 3 years!
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| | | | People to Avoid: Civic Centric San Francisco | Tip Rating: | | | | |
The city of San Francisco is particularly civic-centric, a sort of ego-centricity based upon the city in which one lives. Like the new kid in a classroom, the fresh immigrant to San Francisco is motivated learn quickly the ways of the city. Meanwhile, those born or raised in the city debate among themselves nuances about who was first. If one is a REAL San Franciscan, he can claim to have graduated from one of the public high schools in the city. Enthusiastic tourists confused by this geographically mixed up city are of course targets of derision or laughter. Travelers be warned: Not all San Franciscans will show patience and hospitality. Despite the obvious value of hospitality to the paycheck of the average San Franciscan (the city is the nation's number one adult tourist attraction), gray matter withers and rudeness occurs.
Worse yet, some San Franciscans take on aires relative to the rest of the Bay Area, or even the entire state of California. As a native that's lived about the Bay Area, this civic-centrism is a real kicker. Here the civic-centric thinker perceives the city is the center to Bay Area culture, and so is somehow superior or more fashionable culturally than it's neighbors. There are environmental organizations in the city whose civic-centric minded members would like to impose SF solutions and politics on the waterways, wetlands, and forests of the Bay Area and Northern California, not realizing that the ideas may be greeen in theory but in unrealistic in the field. Nevermind that the city water supply is stolen from pristine alpine region reservoirs in Yosemite only to be dumped polluted back into the bay. Similarly, without the produce and meat from the Salinas or San Joaquin Valleys, wine from Napa or Sonoma, redwood lumber from Humbolt, and college graduates from Stanford, Berkeley, and Davis, the city would certainly wither and die. Leave a Comment
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| | | | People to Avoid: Dispelling the common myths | Tip Rating: | | | | |
First, I would like to say that SF has roughly 6,500 homeless people, that number should be going down, Care Not Cash hopefully will do some good. The homeless here tend stay to themselves, not once have I ever seen anyone attacked by any of them. When I walk the streets I get the occasional vagrant that gets a little vocal when I don't give him a cigarette or dollar, but it never goes beyond that. The only place I see peoples money getting taken, is at Fisherman's Warf in those sub-par restaurants. At night I could see how one could get worried walking through hunters point or the tenderloin but, the average tourist does not venture there in the day, let alone at night! I have noticed that some of the homeless seem to have a great sense of humor and can be quite funny(Bushman).When you come to San Francisco always have your wits about you but, don't let ideas of homeless people shaking you down for your money or, attacking you, spoil your trip plans. Leave a Comment Phone: 911-emergency dispatch
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