Cracks in sidewalks

[Guest]

@SilenceRadio or these ones?

 

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, Snao Cone said:

Do your sidewalks get redone a lot?

Possibly? It's really odd that I can't clearly answer, considering I often look at the ground. It's never been an issue in my life, I imagine.

 

4 minutes ago, Life Of Tass said:

@SilenceRadio or these ones?

 

I don't get many sidewalks like this.

[Guest]

I care in neither case but I don't know whether or not I might be neurodivergent. What I do care about is when a sidewalk becomes literally unusable. For myself it rarely matters but what about all the people that can't walk far or struggle to do so or simply can't do so, for parents pushing strollers, for people dragging/pushing/carrying heavy stuff from 'a' to 'b'? Currently our sidewalks are okayish but I've noticed how much the quality of sidewalks correlates to where a street is in terms of the centrality of a place and how affluent a neighbourhood is.

[Snao Cone]

1 hour ago, Phalena said:

I care in neither case but I don't know whether or not I might be neurodivergent. What I do care about is when a sidewalk becomes literally unusable. For myself it rarely matters but what about all the people that can't walk far or struggle to do so or simply can't do so, for parents pushing strollers, for people dragging/pushing/carrying heavy stuff from 'a' to 'b'? Currently our sidewalks are okayish but I've noticed how much the quality of sidewalks correlates to where a street is in terms of the centrality of a place and how affluent a neighbourhood is.

There are a lot of wheelchair or scooter users in my building, and yet my street has a terribly uneven sidewalk. Across the street isn't so bad because it's a better maintained property (tourism and whatnot) but the city doesn't seem to give a shit about the side people actually live on. The census includes questions on disability, so the data is there on where there is likely a greater need for smooth sidewalks, but that doesn't seem to be factored in. 

[Guest]

I've only started to notice that you're including "natural cracks" as a type of crack. It didn't come to me naturally, especially since I come across sidewalks with cubes much more. And even then, the whole "stepping on (natural) cracks" is something I did in shops more. For sidewalks, I always would try to keep my balance on the side of it while walking. Don't want to defdeb "cracks" or make a hierarchy of cracks, but the "unnatural" ones are those I don't come across often, if at all. I dunno, sidewalks are pretty forgettable for me most of the time. (I'm neurotypical, by the way)

[daveb]

Sidewalks need built-in cracks to cut down on the possibility of accidental cracks. Even then, things like tree roots, earth shifting, etc., can still cause cracks. The accidental cracks may just not travel as far if there is a built-in crack across its path.

 

I guess I don't always pay attention to whether I am stepping on the cracks or not. Maybe sometimes I will and then try to avoid them. Otherwise I'd mostly just be trying not to trip on uneven cracks.

[Topi]

I think I'm neurotypical, however I have this weird fear or obsession in how if I step in cracked sidewalks, I will end up falling in the hole that reaches the center of the Earth and die, so I do everything to avoid these cracks. Like I will even run through the sidewalks or speed walk through them and have people look at me weirdly as long as I can avoid the cracks.

 

If I do step in one and feel the sidewalk move, I feel like my heart has dropped to my stomach and an overwhelming sense of fear. I don't know why I feel this way and why I suddenly started to have this fear, but yeah. It's really unreasonable and people think I'm crazy for this, but I can't help it lmao   

[vin3g4r]

In the city I live in sidewalks look like this:

So it's not exactly possible to avoid the lines. 

My hometown's sidewalks are made of concrete with a big built-in square pattern. When I walk there I try to avoid stepping on the lines, if it's inevitable I try to balance stepping on the line with one foot by doing the same with the other, and then I keep walking on the squares.

I avoid accidental cracks everywhere, but mainly because it doesn't feel safe.

I'm not 100% sure about being neurotypical though, because I never got tested for anything but I do see some traits associated to ADHD and autism in myself.

 

[Blue eyes white dragon]

I intentionally try to avoid stepping on sidewalk cracks because it feels like it messes up my walking rhythm unless I am feeling malicious then I'll purposely step on them. Pretty sure I have adhd and dyscalculia but haven't gone in yet 

[Epitaph]

I usually only tend to look at cracks in the sidewalks only because I'm assessing if they cheaped out on the rebar. Cracks in concrete are inevitable, but if you put enough rebar in it, it's always highly solid. The mixture also determines a few things, plus the weight load the concrete takes. Frost heaves in winter also do some damage, although that can be negated by rebar.

 

Amazingly, most sidewalks are cheaped out on.

 

I don't think being disdainful of cheap shit and lowest bidder work and looking for the faults so I know how to do my own work that doesn't suck would count as neurodivergent, but who knows.

[Thujaplicata]

Sometimes I don't notice them, but I made enough of a game of hopping along and over and such as a kid that now I think I automatically avoid them. Except, of course, for the random occasions in which I must walk precisely along some line or stomp on a crack to assert my dominance or something. 

Mind you, I used to be utterly convinced that r and s were racing in the alphabet and I kept score between the letters of multiple choice tests (I was always rooting for C, and maybe D.) So I have some weird silly stories in my head.

[erichamion]

Do parking lot dividing lines fall into the same category as the spaces between sidewalk slabs? Because I avoid those, too. And since I'm not usually walking in the parking spaces (because, you know, parked cars), the dividing lines get mentally extended out into the street where I'm walking, and I avoid the invisible extension of the lines.

 

It's really annoying around my apartment complex, which has very unevenly-spaced parking spots. Either I have to either keep changing my stride length, or I need walk way out in the middle of the street (private, not really a street, no traffic) where I'm not immediately aware of the lines.

 

I'm neurotypical as far as I know.

[Blueberry Pie]

I think I’m neurotypical. I don’t care much about sidewalk cracks, unless they’re so bad that I’m going to trip on them.

[iff]

@Snao Cone

 

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