There are moments I need to step aside the Tenderloin Hooker Needles and really think why exactly it is that I do it.
San Francisco has shown me what it is to have a city where the mayor, Gavin Newsom, does not care (AT ALL!) for the well being of his citizens.
Yesterday, during a walk around the city hall, I stood in amazement at the human feces scattered around. You really have to constantly look down and watch where you are going. If you walk in flip flops, even more so. The amount of auto glass from break-ins and the discarded junkie needles around the city and SOMA is a scary thing.
Furthermore, you always get a homeless (and mentally insane!) person screaming at you for no reason. Some of those are real insults packed with venomous threats and curse words. More depressing is the fact that this is found in the same place where you pay $2000 or more for a studio apartment that barely fits a TV. I have been screamed at and approached in a threatened manner by the transients in the street.
I recall one Saturday in the MUNI (SF public transportation) bus going through Hayes and Fillmore, a transient telling a female passenger how he was going to rape her, out loud. He also told ‘us’ that he could kill us all. The real kicker is that he was basically 2 feet away from the driver, obviously the latter doesn’t care either. On another MUNI bus, a crazy girl told a man ‘you wouldn’t smile like that if you knew I had a gun’.
From my experience living close to 2 years in San Francisco, I have realized that Newsom spends an awful lot of time styling his hair and matching ties, not really taking responsibility for what could be a beautiful city. Instead of just being the ‘cool dude’ who supports EVERYTHING!, he should sit down and say: “damn, this is screwed up” and “no wonder why families do not want to live here!” If I request the City a permit to wear a clown outfit daily in front of the city hall to raise awareness for the “Clowns Addicted to Anti-Depressants due to the Collapse of their Circus Career or CAADCCC”, Gavin would be all over that. Hell, there will be an ordinance to give every clown in the city a monthly supply of anti-depressants. I am actually not that far off, as San Francisco helps out junkies and keeps them strung out.
My tax money, which happens to be a rather sizable amount, is going nowhere in the city. Possibly to fund a little stupid garden to grow food in front of City Hall so hobos can now urinate on the plants. I guess that is what they call organic these days. There are a lot of bad and deranged people living in the streets of San Francisco (including Financial District, which has human feces smeared in some bus stops). You see them urinate, defecate and do drugs in front of you. I pay their rent, oh yeah, my taxes pay their rent on the sidewalks, if we want to get technical about it.
Tourists and people like me who have been relocated, please don’t come over and give away your tax money to a careless and rather rude city. Forgot to mention, don’t say anything of what I just wrote or similar to anyone in San Francisco, they think is cool and hip that we have all these problems. Keep in mind that in this city, you are WRONG and you are a BAD PERSON because you just don’t understand why that man is threatening to rape your wife or girlfriend. You have to support him, hold his hand and tell him is OK. While you are at it, let him rape and beat your girlfriend or wife to show your support. The cops or the city’s offices won’t do anything to him, they’ll pass him a legalized joint afterwards to relax. This city is a joke, the mayor is a joke, the officials are a joke. No wonder why the whole place is in decline.
Hopefully, I am leaving soon. I’ve lived in major cities across US and I have never witnessed such carelessness.
In a land of protests, here’s mine…The Tenderloin Hooker Needles
