Big Picture?

I live on the fourth floor in a building thats seen better days. The elevator looks like something out of a 19th century steam punk nightmare. Unless the inner and outer doors of the frequently out of order contraption are closed properly then pushing the button in the lobby will only result in the sound of metal clunking and nothing much else.
I pushed the button a few times because it takes a few clicks before it works. After a futile 30 seconds I decide Im going to make the climb up the stairs. When I get to the fourth floor a girl stands at the now closed doors and descending elevator and says, "Oh, did you need the elevator?"
I say "No! Why would someone who lives on the fourth floor be pressing the button for the elevator in the lobby?"
Her eyes sort of go wide and then I walk away.

For all the talk about San Francisco changing and becoming more selfish it finally dawned on me whats really happening. Almost everyone in this city agrees on the larger social issues; racism is wrong, sexism is wrong and just about every other social ill that ends with an "isim" is wrong. What people seem to be failing at is thinking about how their actions might impact other people at the one on one level. You know, like holding an elevator door open when you can hear someone pushing the button downstairs?

Ever see San Francisco residents wearing peace symbols, drinking fair trade coffee on their way to a protest that will stop traffic for moral reasons get pissed when the bus they're on has to stop to pick up a person in a wheel chair? Its like vegetarians in leather pants. By the way, I do know a vegetarian who wore leather pants and when I asked her how she could be cool with that she simple said that she didn't eat the cows. Ah, I see. Killing and eating a cow is wrong but wearing their skin as pants is OK?
Whatever.

Point is, people will come together to rage against the big issues facing society but if they all go to the same protest there is bound to be a fight because someone is going to walk into someone else while they were looking at their texts.
Cheers…