The "market" certainly didn't sort out the awful Sprint from the very good T-Mobile!!

It's Amazing to me that some USA Mother's do Not want to be their Child's "confidante"! It's like Not reporting a neighbor's Child Abuse. Shocking!, but it happens.

I was sitting at the bar local sushi restaurant next to what family of about 5. The young teenage boy sitting next to me and I said "hello" and chatted.

I offered to show him how to use chopsticks.
We ordered different sushi so we talked about that.

Then I told him what I thought was important at his age, that he pick a motto, like my "be prepared" from Boy Scouts or "honesty and kindness" or "stronger smarter kinder" like Sesame Street. Two of my high school friends became multi-millionaires with the motto "be prepared". Also good manners and good penmanship!

I told him I really hated as a teenager constantly being asked by relatives and strangers "what are you going to be when you grow up?" Constantly.
I told him that I thought I wanted to work as a scuba diver for Jacques Cousteau or maybe a park ranger in Yosemite but that I really didn't know until after 4 years of college.
I told him I had made a lot of money and had a lot of fun being a tour bus driver in California and also a limo driver to the super rich and movie stars so it worked out okay eventually.

The other thing I tried to help him with was bullying which was a huge problem back in the 50s and 60s. My dad said to just live with it.
So I told him my mother was my confidante and I could talk to her about anything from mean kids at school to girls to homework to feeling awkward socially and not being able to dance.

At the end of the meal I guess he told his mom all this and she was offended that a stranger would be so honest and caring about her son in casual conversation.
They were regulars at this sushi restaurant, but they have not come back.

So I apologize to the mother, for being honest and caring.
They say "it takes a community".
I guess I am extremely lucky to have had such a wonderful Mother.

You may have heard the News talk about pedestrian deaths in San Francisco and how drivers are to blame. Not true! Blame the red light walking and running pedestrians and the lack of police on the street downtown!

Everybody in town knows this.

But nobody wants to talk about it or do anything about it!, like ticketing pedestrians that walk on a red light or start walking in a crosswalk on a red hand signal. I just saw a woman at Embarcadero4 walk across the crosswalk on a yellow light, way too late, impeding right turning traffic!

Remember that tourism is by far and away the number one business of San Francisco.
And the sfpd are usually rarely seen  on sidewalks downtown.
The sfpd has been very ineffectual at stopping the recent rash of bicycle theft to public sidewalk bicycle chop shops, nor the rash of car window smashing day and night all over town!
Shootings have commonly happened on Mason Street just west of Union Square in the Tenderloin neighborhood.

What is needed is a massive increase it daytime downtown patrols by DPT and MTA, educating pedestrians at crosswalks.
And as is necessary, ticketing dangerous selfish risky pedestrian lawbreakers, even if from foreign countries or Marin.

Gavin Newsom moved from Lt.Gov. to Governor. It's been over 6months. I expected more talk and much more action.

#1, start clearing the "fuel load" all across the State and use the National Guard.
Don't wait for the end of "fire season" next Winter. Ban gum trees.

#2, Ban the diet use of Antibiotics in California animal feed, so it has at least some positive effect on human health.

#3, ban fracking. Make the oil industry clean up.

#4, promote hydrogen fuel cell cars and expensive electricity here for expensive , flammable , still experimental electric cars in a big State with 400miles from SF to LA.

#5, ban cigarette filters.

#6, outlaw non-recyclable plastic. Require the industry to collect sort and safely recycle all California plastic.

#7, privatize the DMV and Caltrans that wasted $6B on the new flawed Oakland Bay Bridge.

#8, ban Roundup that never should have been sold. Start a new strict control on toxic farm chemicals.

#9, Help Public School teachers by allowing them to move their salaries and senority anywhere in the State. Ban gold handshakes and wasteful gold

Lots of Nations and cultures are comfortable with a high level of Crime and Violence: Mexico Iran Nigeria etc

Education is Not Highly Valued by Most there...

Wrote the California ATTORNEY GENERAL to get help with SJWater and Soquel Water long history of gross OVERCHARGING. He wrote, 'i work for the State Agencies, Not the Public.'. Ouch!

HiSo the only getting worse DMV?  Yep.

And the incompetent CALTRANS that totally wasted $6B on the new but broken Oakland Bay Bridge,,,and can't/won't pick up the shoulder highway litter weekly,,,or remove the many highway side dead trees,,,or contracts with a repaving company about 2 years ago that redid 101 between SF and SJ but didn't use enough tar so the new roadway crumbled in the first rain, that month?
Yep.

And the inept PUC that allowed PG&E to "deferred maintenance" on $M and $B and maybe $Ts of gas and electric infrastructure, causing electricity rates to climb and making electric cars and "all-electric houses" a bad and super expensive choice.
Yep, those bums too!

Yikes!!

Franciscan Winery, Napa, Manager chewed me out Twice for directing my tour bus passengers from SF to the bathrooms Before the paid tour!!

My bus boss told me to keep going there.
So eventually I quit that SF tour bus company!
Hornblower Bus to Chariot bus to a tiny limo company and I am still offended and bothered by this arrogant abusive Franciscan Winery manager!

See the winery is now "closed".
Wonder why...