1. No snow. Seriously, it’s Christmas people. Where’s the weather???
2. Union Square. (SF, not NYC.) Always crowded. Mostly tourists. Like the Times Square of San Francisco except it’s dark and doesn’t even have a Dunkin’ Donuts. I would never go there if I could avoid it. And while we’re on it…
3….SF has the highest pedestrian death rate of any American city. It’s not hard to see why: a combination of the poor drivers and poor planning. Why doesn’t this city get it together (like New York did in the 60s) to make their main thoroughfares one way so you can make a left when you need to and, while they’re sorting that out, time the crosswalk lights so that drivers can actually turn onto those streets sometimes without waiting on the herds of slow-moving out-of-towners and backing traffic up for ages? The drivers here are already operating at some subterranean levels of skill and intelligence and the poor transit planning only makes it worse. It took me 20 minutes to drive around one block the other day in the middle of a weekday. 20 minutes.
4. Sick boyfriend at home gets in the way of getting productive things done…