A Public Service Announcement

To all citizens who live in cities like San Francisco, where very extreme inclines are commonplace, especially on sidewalks, let me give you some unsolicited advice. 

If you realize, before you venture outside the house, that you and your footwear will be spending more than twenty seconds of the day in contact with sidewalks slanted at forty-five degree angles, the kind of sidewalks children careen down in their Rollerblades and are never heard from again, the kind of of sidewalks where parents and nannies require a personal trainer and an oxygen tank to help them reach the top of the hill while pushing that stroller, for the love of Pete please please please put your four inch heels away, pull on your flat equestrian boots and get on with it. 

Not that I would know that that is like.  Or whatever.