Paperboy for Nintendo, in real life

So, there is this game for nintendo called paperboy, you ride your bike down the street and deliver papers. On your way, you run into an endless amount of obstacles, many of them are realistic, but the occurences are in an unrealistic proportion. On a ride down the sidewalk, there might be a guy with a jackhammer, a frisky dog, or a ball rolling down a driveway... but not all three. Well...... today i experienced a "real life peperboy" on my way to the post office. I was on my bike riding don Mt. Pleasant, however there were a bunch of parked cars and the road is beaten up brick, so I went for the sidewalk. On a stretch of about 8 houses here is what happened. One house had a sprinkler, so i swerved out of the the way, next thing i know a little gate swings open and the mailman walked out, causing me to almost fall of my bike. I regained my balance and 2 houses later a little dog ran out of someones yard and chased me. I sped up and pedaled away. Thats when the thought crossed my mind, i just more or less road my bike thru a real life nintendo paperboy level!