a walk home

hey all, im new here and i dont really plan on becoming a regular poster but theres enough intelligent and entertaining stuff here that i figred id try and contribute.
well i was walking home to my apartment at around 6pm one recent night, it was just the time of year when it gets dark about then, it was also starting to feel alot like the holidays, christmas was coming up, like it is now, and there were lights on boshes and stuff. well i have to pass a bar and porn shop on my way, which ive always been passive about. this one night a guy was walking up the sidewalk towards me, obviously at least a little intoxicated. I always imagine anyone i come across like that trying to talk to me. this time the man actually did. he said something to the effect of "watch out for those bricks (it was a brick sidewalk), they freeze first, thats why you need to walk in the road" this almost seemed reasonable, although obviously not sound advice. that wasnt what mattered to me tho, just the fact that it was advice in the first place. i mean what kind of a utopian world was i walking in that night where even the drunks try to offer what help they can give...